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TIL the name of the Pringles man on the tube of potato chips is Julius Pringles

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l7RLr TIL Joan Robinson was denied Nobel Prize in Economics because she supported Mao's Economic Policies and of all 93 Economics Nobel Prize winners only 10 winners have been cited more widely than Robinson. Future Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen were the students of hers
YlWv TIL that penguins can get depression and are committing suicide by wandering into the dangerous Antarctic mountains - and almost nobody knows why
9wM1G TIL the lawyers of Rosa Parks sued Outkast in 1999.
Br1Vb TIL in 2016 an astronomer convinced Alaska Airlines to shift a flight time 25 minutes so it would pass through the path of totality for a solar eclipse. They even washed all the windows on the right side of the plane.
DQOPD Today I learned that Stilton cheese cannot legally be made in Stilton, the village which gave the cheese its name