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TIL - There is a strictly enforced ban on Chewing Gum in Singapore that has been in effect for decades. Bringing chewing gum into the country even for personal use is illegal.

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l7EXG TIL that the largest country subdivision in the world is Uttar Pradesh, India, with a population of ~241 million in an area slightly larger than the the state of Wyoming (~98k square miles). The largest city, Lucknow, has (only) 3.5 million people.
ykgp TIL that a software company buried a $1000 prize deep within its Terms Of Service just to see if anyone reads them. It took 5 months and 3000 sales for someone to respond
ANGZx TIL German Donaldists are actively infiltrating the culture pages of several important newspapers in Germany, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where they subtly install quotations easily recognisable to fans of the comics.
VmmD TIL A Milwaukee man in prison for a fatal shooting, broke out, took on the identity of a dead child and became a successful business man. It all unraveled 33 years later when his wife came across a Facebook post mentioning the dead child.
neXdd TIL that Jeannette Rankin was the first women voted into the United States congress, famously before US women were allowed the right to vote. As of today, she remains the only woman Montana has elected to Congress.