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TIL: Ultima Thule was thought to have a unique snowman shape but once the spacecraft arrived it revealed an even stranger flattened gingerbread man shape

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oBE8Y TIL Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
Y7mM7 TIL that the Virgin Boy Egg is a dish with a longstanding tradition in Dongyang, China, in which a vendor boils an egg in the urine of young boys, preferably under the age of ten. They are routinely eaten and are "widely accepted as a time-honored tradition"
rNEDd TIL when President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, members of the crowd began beating the latter. The President then told the attackers to "go easy on him, boys." McKinley survived initially but died 8 days later. Leon Czolgosz was executed by electrocution a few months later.
7G9M TIL Harvard researchers were able to store 700 terabytes of data on a single gram of DNA.
KO6ow TIL Isaac Newton named indigo as a part of the rainbow because he was really into the number 7.