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TIL all the air in potato chip bags we complain about is actually Nitrogen and serves a purpose. It preserves the crispiness and provides cushion during shipping.

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WkGJd TIL there is a subculture of people living the life of different decades where they weren't even born.
WkBLA TIL Regina King voiced both Riley and Huey in the animated series "The Boondocks"
6ERZm TIL George Miller the director and co-creator of the Mad Max series has personally only won 1 Oscar award. Miller won the award for best animated feature for directing Happy Feet. He also directed the sequel to Babe, Babe: Pig in the City.
VLeG TIL that in Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In October 2001, Anssi Vanjoki (at the time a director at Nokia) was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros after being caught driving at 75 km/h in a 50km/h zone.
DmQY TIL: A Man pretending to work at Goldman Sachs tweeted outlandish statements supposedly spoken by bankers criticizing the poor and bragging about their wealth within Elevators, Goldman believed so much that these tweets were real an internal inquiry was conducted and speaking in elevators banned.