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TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can, Fred Baur, requested to be buried in one. Part of his ashes were indeed buried in a Pringles can.

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WkGNd TIL cows are the female animal once they have had a baby calf. Heifers are cows that haven't had a baby yet. Bulls are the males capable of mating and steers are bulls that have been castrated (only removing testicles). The general descriptor for the species as a whole is "cattle"
VBLRG TIL unassisted marathon swims can be relays with varied numbers of participants
olMA TIL that they used to call it “the calculus” (as in, I’ve studied the calculus, Newton invented the calculus, etc) because “calculus” used to be a generic name for any abstract theory until “the calculus” overshadowed all the other calculuses.
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