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TIL Pringles are technically not potato chips, they are molded out of powdered potato, wheat, and other additives

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L9eZ TIL that Ramon Artagaveytia, who survived the fire and sinking of a ship in 1871 suffered emotional scarring. 41 years later, he finally was able to overcome his fears, deciding to sail again; only to die in the sinking of that ship, which was the Titanic
VBwAk TIL From 1812-1814, Joseph Fraunhofer studied the spectrum of solar light passing through a thin slit and recorded 500 dark lines. Newton missed seeing dark lines in 1666 because he shone light from the whole solar disk through a circular hole into his prisms
nejoB TIL the reason that Dippin' Dots ice cream -- made by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen -- is rarely sold in supermarkets is that it requires storage at temperatures below −40°F (−40°C), and supermarkets generally cannot provide such extreme cooling requirements.
grovW TIL that Fukushi Masaichi (30 January 1878 – 3 June 1956) was a Japanese physician and pathologist in Tokyo. He was the founder of the world's only known collection of tattoos taken from the dead. He collected an archive of about 2000 "hides", which were later lost during World War II.
pYvbb TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered using "Sherrinford Holmes" for his hero before settling on "Sherlock Holmes"