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TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can was buried in one. His family honored his request by placing his ashes in a Pringles tube.

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R571 TIL that Lucifer, as referred to in the book of Issiah, was actually a Babylonian king.
j8wQ TIL that the town seal of Whitesboro, NY depicts a white settler strangling a native american. In 2009, city officials maintained that “The seal will stay just the way it is.”
5VPKR TIL that the longest English word is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust
kO0d5 TIL that Afghanistan had no national anthem under Taliban's rule because music was outlawed.
nK6Y TIL Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the inventor of RADAR was caught speeding with a RADAR gun and reportedly said, “‘My God, if I’d known what they were going to do with it, I’d have never have invented it!”