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TIL that the shape of Pringles potato chips (a hyperbolic paraboloid) was designed using a supercomputer to be aerodynamically stable so they don’t fly off the manufacturing line.

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xVoMw TIL potato chips cause more weight gain than any other food
DpwV TIL in 2002, a mid-air collision between a passenger jet and cargo jet took the lives of all 71 people aboard both planes. A man whose family was killed in the collision later stabbed to death the Air Traffic Controller that was on duty at the time of the collision.
n61r TIL the first auto-tuned song was Cher’s “Believe” (1998) it was coined the “Cher-Effect” at the time.
68kQ TIL A city in California almost stopped the usage of Styrofoam cups because they were known to be made using “dihydrogen monoxide”, completely neglecting the fact that the substance is plain water.
4DLo TIL that all navel oranges are united clones from a solitary tree change that happened very nearly 200 years back in Brazil. All things considered, they might all be considered product of that unique tree, and are all hereditarily indistinguishable.