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TIL cigarette filters are printed to look like cork.

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KkvQ TIL: To prevent voyeurism, cellphones purchased in Japan can’t disable the camera’s shutter sound.
6EVpX TIL that on 9/11 a Starbucks nearby ground zero charged rescue workers $130 for 3 cases of water. The company knew about it for weeks and eventually mailed a $130 check to the ambulance company, but only after a journalist ran a piece on 25 September 2001
6EG4l TIL Actor Kal Penn raised over $800,000 for charity in the name of a guy who commented that Kal ‘doesn’t belong in America’
yQbZX TIL of Clarence Elkins, who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his mother-in-law and assault of his 6-year-old niece. His wife worked hard to exonerate him and found a likely suspect who was in the same jail as him. Clarence collected a cigarette he’d used. His DNA matched.
kOxpg TIL-An undergraduate architecture student in '78 found a flaw in the Design of Citicorp Center '77: that Citicorp Center could blow over in the wind. Repair work was done throughout the night and quit at daybreak, just as the building occupants returned to work. The story remained a secret until '95