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TIL that there is an actual name for the shape of Pringles - a Hyperbolic Paraboloid

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N779J TIL out of 885 Army recruting stations across the United States, the most productive one is in American Samoa.
gMPAA TIL that Eugene Shoemaker is the only man buried on the Moon. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule.
NnmN TIL that upon initial release in 1966, a comma was mysteriously added to the Rolling Stones song by the record company, making the official title “Paint It, Black”
W1K8 TIL the old man who masturbates to Natalie Portman on the subway in Black Swan and the guy who yells “ass-to-ass” in Requiem for a Dream are played by the same actor. The character is credited as “Uncle Hank” in both of them.
wLBO8 TIL That the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel died of Tuberculosis at the age of 26 and did most of his major work in a span of about 7 years while living in poverty. The equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of mathematics; the Abel prize, is named after him.