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TIL Inventor of Keurig K-Cup, regretting environmental waste from K-Cups, left and started a solar panel company

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gMnVA TIL Neo’s passport in “The Matrix” (1999) expired on September 11, 2001.
aNYy TIL Cash Cab actually pre-screened all of its players and the huge wads of cash wielded by host Ben Bailey were not actually given to the players at the end of the program.
GAL0Q TIL The remains of a complete male A. dirus (Dire Wolf) are sometimes easy to identify compared to other Canis specimens because the baculum (penis bone) of the dire wolf is very different from that of all other living canids.
vPPWD TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.
YjDv TIL that the playtypus has no nipples, and milk simply oozes from their skin.