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TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.

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758M TIL - There is a strictly enforced ban on Chewing Gum in Singapore that has been in effect for decades. Bringing chewing gum into the country even for personal use is illegal.
4jP5 TIL In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 to say that heart disease was most likely caused by saturated fat. After their report was published in JAMA, diets concentrating on low fat gained the endorsement of many health authorities.
x6oJk TIL that doctors at Yale University found that make-believe games are the "forerunners of the important capacity for forms of self-regulation including reduced aggression, delay of gratification, civility, and empathy.”
R7V57 TIL when Rockstar first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it controversial, and therefore popular. They targeted right wing news papers to ensure moral outrage and drive the game to success.
M7Y1V TIL Einstein rented an apartment in Bern on the second floor from 1903 to 1905, considered his “crucial years” and it is now a restored museum. Despite working a 48 hour week at the Patent Office and juggling life with a new wife and baby, Einstein still managed to create paradigms in physics