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TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.

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OoPe7 TIL that Switzerland has a system called direct democracy where citizens can disregard the government and hold national votes to create their own laws or even overturn those of the government.
k0GB TIL that in 1986 Apple launched a clothing line.
BXZL TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”
5YoAP TIL a shade of purple called "rebeccapurple" in web development is a memorial to Rebecca Alison Meyer, daughter of CSS developer Eric Meyer. Rebecca passed away on her sixth birthday from brain cancer.
0wEVp TIL The Cherokee Nation fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War.