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TIL The Inventor of the Pringles Can was Buried in One
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TIL there is over 9,000,000,000,000 dollars missing from the Federal Reserve and nobody knows where it is.
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TIL of thundersnow, which is exactly what it sounds like: a rare type of thunderstorm where it snows instead of rains. They come with heavy snow, poor visibility, strong winds, and lightning more destructive than a typical thunderstorm.
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TIL Director Guillermo del Toro’s father was kidnapped for ransom in 1997. He was returned safely after his family was forced to pay double the ransom. Del Toro has been in “involuntary exile” from Mexico ever since.
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TIL that Rüppell's griffon vulture has the highest documented altitude of any bird at 36k feet. Unfortunately this information was discovered after a Boeing 747 took the bird into the engine over western Africa.
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TIL that the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element almost went to Prince rather than Chris Tucker.