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TIL that smartphones are capable of receiving FM radio signals, but phone/wireless companies deny that consumer demand is strong enough to justify activating it

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npP7 TIL that in Singapore anyone born in the year 2000 or later is forever banned from buying cigarettes or any other tobacco related product.
lJ1N TIL that Tupac Shakur vehemently denied being a “gangsta’ rapper” publicly, & claimed to be misrepresented by the media: “I am not a gangster & never have been. I’m not the thief who grabs your purse…I’m not down with people who steal & hurt others. I’m just a brother who fights back.”
d0A8 TIL the original purpose of Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” was to satirize both pretentious verse and ignorant literary critics… and now it’s studied in schools.
D1app TIL that the filling between the wafers in Kit-Kats is made from other mashed up Kit-Kats that didn't get past the quality assurance due to minor imperfections
9YlE7 TIL that Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. Harvard boasts a fancy 5.2 percent admittance rate, but it's beaten badly by Walmart's minute 2.6% of applicants being accepted.