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TIL the inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.

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jNEmv TIL In 2001, the Mongolian Navy consisted of just 7 members, and only 1 of them knew how to swim
wno7 TIL the only coup in US history occured in North Carolina in 1898. A mob of white supremacists armed with rifles and pistols marched on City Hall in Wilmington and overthrew the local government, forcing both black and white officials to resign. The leader of the mob was later elected as mayor.
grwGX TIL Hiroshima’s streetcar network was reopened three days after the atomic bombing of the city
oRAZR TIL that while creating "Blue Monday", New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris learned to use their Emulator 1 sampler by recording their own flatulence.
8gJb TIL that there is a card game called Mao in which new players are told only “the only rule you may be told is this one”, which means that new players have to discover the rules by themselves. The aim of the game is to be the first to get rid of all the cards in his hands without breaking any rules.