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TIL The Inventor of the Pringles Can was Buried in One

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Q0eL TIL that it is illegal to share food with the homeless in Orlando, Florida.
kXX1 TIL that after running late to a class, George Dantzig copied down two problems he thought were homework and solved them. The two problems were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, which later earned him his doctorate.
J0Z8 TIL that Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten appeared as a defendant against one of Captain Beefheart’s drummers on an episode of “Judge Judy”.
wLk5o TIL that the software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame
N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.