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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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yQPJV TIL that despite Denmark being occupied by Nazi Germany, over 99% of Denmark's Jewish community was spared from the Holocaust by being evacuated to Sweden in 1943
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