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TIL that the reason chips bags are half empty is because it is package with nitrogen gas to protect it from damage during transit

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Dwlr TIL Cats kill an estimated 4 billion wild animals across the U.S. every year
MMka TIL that Mr. Rogers, after discovering that his limo driver was stuck waiting in the car, invited him to enter a PBS exec’s house. Later, Rogers entertained the driver’s family with jazz piano.
JYPA4 TIL Apples are generally red, green, yellow, but if the right geographical conditions are met, they can apparently grow dark purple, almost black, as well. These rare apples are called Black Diamond and they are currently only grown in the mountains of Tibet.
lQAN TIL that whenever acclaimed author Douglas Adams faced writer’s block, he reminded himself that he was the only student ever to be awarded a “10/10” in creative writing by his teacher, Frank Halford.
78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.