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TIL Alexander the great named a city after his horse

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x64Yg TIL that the famous song “Funiculi, Funicula” was written to commemorate the opening of the first cable car going to the top of Mt. Vesuvius. The song was so popular that a million copies of its sheet music were sold within a year.
5VOpB TIL that there is a brand of potato chips developed for prison commissaries that was so popular on the inside that it became available to the mass market.
rNVoy TIL in the 1960s, Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes came with whistles which coincidentally had the specific frequency (2600 hertz) required to exploit a vulnerability of in-band signaling enabling a phone to make free calls by entering an 'operator mode'.
NX64P TIL in February 1936, Pope Pius XI recieved a mesage from Hitler congratulating him on the anniversary of his coronation. Pius' response critizied Hitler's regime with such force that Germany's foreign secretary tried to suppress the response, but Pius insisted that the message be given to Hitler.
VMNLD TIL laser hair removal is sometimes used after gender reassignment surgery to remove hair growth in the vagina.