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TIL that the name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’.

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Edx7 TIL Meth was created in Japan in 1893. During WW2, Meth was prescribed for Tank and Bomber crews to help keep them awake. Hitler took meth via IV on a regular basis.
eOlk TIL A Utah teacher was fired for writing an educational blog about “homophones”
DWye TIL that, due to the extreme amount of red tape involved in exporting animals, Game of Thrones moves production to the home country of the dogs who portray the Starks’ direwolves to film their scenes, rather than attempt transporting them to Ireland.
kBoe TIL that according to Rotten Tomatoes, the Toy Story trilogy is the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time.
G41G TIL In 1989, the Australian youth radio station Triple J played the song “Express Yourself” by NWA on continuous loop for 24 hours (360 times in a row) while the station went on a protest strike against censorship of NWA’s song Fuck Tha Police