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TIL That Apple’s Micro-SIM cards are just regular SIM cards with extraneous plastic removed

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GYK8j TIL The YMCA gave Dr Naismith 2 weeks to invent what would become basketball in 1891 in order to have an indoor "athletic distraction" to keep rowdy youth busy in the cold New England winter months
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