Why Pringles are shaped the way they are
Your favorite stacked snack is a marvel of industrial efficiency designed to combat factory crosswinds. Engineers tasked a computer to optimize the chip shape, resulting in a perfect hyperbolic paraboloid. This wasn't just to make them stack flawlessly in a rigid tube, but to ensure they wouldn't easily fly off the high-speed conveyor belts during the incredibly fast manufacturing process.

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