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TIL that Kinder Suprise eggs are now unbanned in the USA

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XdyP TIL cranberries don’t grow in bogs. The fields are flooded during picking to make mass harvesting more efficient as the berries float above their vines.
XEb5R TIL Tarzan wasn’t raised by apes, but by a fictional species of ape-like beings who have their own language.
KYlwQ TIL that CBS used to run so many rural-themed TV shows that they were mocked as the “Country Broadcasting System.” To attract a more lucrative audience, after the 1970-71 season they enacted the “rural purge,” canceling many popular rural-themed series and long-running variety shows.
M7Rbm TIL: The "voice" of the GPS is often recorded by a person named Karen Jacobsen. She is an Australian singer and voiceover artist who recorded her voice in 2002 for a text-to-speech system used in over a billion GPS and smartphone devices worldwide.
gO1A TIL Legalizing direct-to-consumer car sales would reduce the average price by over $3000