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TIL Potato chip packets are made noisy to make you think the chips are crunchier. There is no reason in terms of product preservation for the noisy packets.

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O6pR TIL Nazi soldiers burned civilians alive in the town of Oradour-sur-Glane. Charles de Gaulle ordered that the ruins are not removed, and the empty town still exists as it was in June 1944.
O6EX TIL Although Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate 10 times higher than whites, Research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.
nex7r TIL Chris Brown is banned from entering Australia, the UK and New Zealand due to his criminal activity
XvgD TIL that in 2008 in New Jersey, more than 30 officers, including SWAT team members, were engaged in a standoff with a non-responsive supposed bank robber for over an hour before realizing ‘she’ was a cardboard cut-out.
xvN0 TIL that after a wave of teen suicides in the 1980s, the media, following guidelines from CDC, carefully and voluntarily avoided sensationalizing the deaths and to a large extent stopped reporting on them