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TIL Gene Wolfe, a mechanical engineer turned author known for science fiction and fantasy novels, developed the frying device that cooks Pringles potato chips.

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1BNO TIL a male tiger almost always win in a fight against a male lion because it is bigger, has longer fangs, better muscle density, more agile, more powerful bite force and can stand on its powerful hindlegs allowing for both-paws swipe while the lion cannot.
W7Z9A TIL Natsume Sōseki was robotically revived as an android by Nishogakusha university in Tokyo and voiced by his grandson Fusanosuke Natsume in 2016 to revive interest in this amazing modern Japanese author.
6ExjJ TIL the world's first implantable pacemaker patient, Arne Larsson, went on to receive 26 different pacemakers during his lifetime. He died in 2001, at the age of 86, outliving the inventor as well as the surgeon.
wooN7 TIL that if a juror believes the law is unjust, they have to right to find a defendant "Not Guilty" regardless of the evidence.
a74J TIL that if a Lion fights a Tiger, experts believe “the tiger will always win.”