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

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kMEg TIL that the reason we have access to so much free online porn, is mostly because of a man named Fabian Thylmann, who bought up many of the paid pornography sites and made them free; gaining revenue through ads instead.
Q5xa TIL NBC renewed ‘The Office’ for a second season, despite mediocre ratings for the first season, because they anticipated Steve Carell’s film, 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin’, would make it a ratings success - which it did.
161XW TIL David Duke lied to his political supporters while soliciting money on the pretext that he was financially struggling. However he was financially secure and used the money raised for gambling.
78ggO TIL that whales can get infected by lice and every whale species has its corresponding louse species.
yQJoX TIL that the probability of having a doppelganger (non-biologically related look-alike or double of a living person) is only one in a trillion, or almost zero. This makes it highly unlikely for any person to actually have a doppelganger, according to this University of Adelaide research.