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TIL before retiring to become an author, science fiction writer Gene Wolfe helped design the machine that makes Pringles potato chips

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JY8Dl TIL: in 1978 the supreme Court changed the credit card industry by erasing state laws that limit interest rates.
V0Lm TIL John Adams felt that though independence and a free government sounded appealing in theory, he feared “that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.”
g5lL TIL There wasn’t a single clinical trial of the science in The Food Pyramid
KOlVB TIL Genghis Khan maintained a large empire owing to a excellent postal system, where messages were transmitted at a rate of 300 km per day using a network of horse messengers, with every horse station located 40 km apart, similar to a modern day bicycle sharing system.
MMbb TIL a black man tried to integrate the University of Mississippi and not only was rejected, but sent to an insane asylum.