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TIL the founder of Pringles is buried inside of a Pringles can.

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45Zb TIL that GiveDirectly, a non-profit that gives money to poor people, has been evaluated to be one of the most effective means of charity.
dDrZB TIL of the Cavalese incident of 1998 that occurred on February 3, 1998, in Cavalese, Italy. A US Marine Corps aircraft was flying at a low altitude when it severed the cable of a ski lift. The cable car plummeted to the ground, resulting in the deaths of all 20 people on board.
QNM5a TIL that in 1969 Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio literally caught on fire, which resulted in the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency the next year
LmLQ TIL a 108-year-old Santa Monica woman said in an interview of her extraordinarily long life, “It doesn’t pay to live too long.” She had long since outlived her husband, and her son had recently died in his 80s.
QNJlM TIL Susan Sarandon, who play a cellist named Jane in "The Witches of Eastwick", learned only after being cast that she would have to quickly learn how to play cello, and was told that she would be sued if she left the production.