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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Prison-Only Potato Chips Known As “The Whole Shabang” Live Up To Their Name
Description: Some chip brands hit it big on store shelves - but one brand that won legions of adoring fans in prisons. For National Potato Chip Day, the story of The Whole Shabang. Plus: March 14 is Pi Day, because the number Pi starts with 3.14. Supercomputers have helped find the next 62.8 trillion digits that follow.
Chips So Good You'll Have to Go to Jail to Get Them (NBC News)
A Supercomputer Just Calculated Pi to a Record-Breaking 62.8 Trillion Digits. So What? (Popular Mechanics)
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