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The iPhone X, which cost $999, contained so much components from Samsung that the company earned $110 per device sold

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N7XJ TIL that filmmaker Richard Linklater has been working on a 12 year film since 2002, filming a fictional narrative of a boy growing up, as the boy really grows up
amob TIL of ‘Radium Girls’, US Radium, and UnDark, radium paint applied to watches and gauges. Though executives protected themselves, they denied any danger to ‘the girls’ applying UnDark and blamed health problems on syphilis. The 'girls’ died rapidly, their bodies radioactive almost a century later.
x6Mn1 TIL: Humans are not a preferred prey of Great White Sharks and it is theorised that they might find us too bony, as opposed to blubber rich seals.
JYvRv TIL of the McCollough effect, a visual phenomenon which alters perception of horizontal and vertical lines. The effect can last for up to three months, if the viewer looks at the images that trigger it long enough.
nMgB TIL of Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie ‘Code of the Secret Service’… which starred a young Ronald Reagan.