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TIL Pepsi admitted that its Aquafina bottled water is not purified water or spring water, but simply plain tap water

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wLaVW TIL All the McBain clips in The Simpsons make a short McBain Movie when you play then back to back.
AD604 TIL mobile game developers, because the FTC's Truth in Advertising has not caught up with this practice, are allowed to grossly falsify gameplay with advertising in order to get you to download as long as they don't charge you up front to play or download the game.
p8XwN TIL: Advent doesn't start on 1st December. It starts on the 4th Sunday before Christmas so varies by up to a week. The 1st December 'tradition' was invented by companies making advent calendars so the same units/designs can be sold every year.
LKJp TIL there is a word: “Mamihlapinatapai”, from the Yaghan language, which is considered the most succint and hardest word to translate: it means: “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.”
6EOkl TIL that Billy Joel's last hit "We didn't start the fire" that chronicled 40 years of US and World history in song was inspired by a discussion that Billy Joel had with Sean Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Sadly, only 5 of the 59 people that are mentioned in the song are still alive.