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TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can had a portion of his ashes placed in one

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P1e9J TIL Much of the dialogue in the film "Fritz the Cat" was improvised or recorded on the streets of New York. For example, the director Ralph Bakshi went to a Harlem Bar with a tape recorder and spent hours talking to Black patrons and getting drunk with them while asking questions.
9YJNG TIL about Dusan Popov, MI6 triple agent who deceived Germans during WWII that D-Day would occur in Calais, not Normandy. Popov was famous for his playboy lifestyle which made him one of primary inspirations for James Bond.
NXX86 TIL that a snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but it can have over 25,000 teeth .
OGbaa TIL the NEW River in West Virginia is the fourth oldest river in the world
69ME8 TIL when seeking an alternative to scarce copper for the Manhattan Project, Manhattan asked the Treasury for 6,000 tons of silver and were told that the Treasury did not deal in tons, their unit was the Troy ounce. Manhattan would eventually borrow 408 million Troy oz (14,000 tons) of silver.