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TIL The wife of Communist Romania’s leader (Elena Ceaușescu) was barely literate but was able to obtain a PhD in Chemistry from plagiarism.

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16XW4 TIL that in the US, Pringles used to call themselves “potato chips” until the FDA said they didn’t qualify as chips. In 2008, Pringles tried to argue in UK court that they were exempt from a tax on crisps (the British term for potato chips) because they weren’t crisps. They lost the case.
dDRKB TIL that there is a company called Eternal Reefs that uses human corpses & remains to create living coral reef memorials off of the Florida coast
VLLp TIL of Disco Sally, a geriatric widowed grandmother who became a fixture of NYC’s legendary Studio 54.
R58K9 TIL Oreos are vegan. The “cream” filling is essentially vegetable oil and sugar.
R7Kka TIL the California Highway Patrol are not known as CHiPs.