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TIL “Beats” Headphones cost roughly $14 to make and can sell for upwards of $450

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4X5VN TIL: "Lunch atop a skyscraper" - one of Americas most iconic photos taken in 1932 was staged as part of photo-shoot to promote the opening of the Rockefeller centre in New York. This is just one of several photos featuring real steel workers taken as part of the same photo-shoot.
pYdAO TIL of Anton-Babinski syndrome, a form of blindness from damage to the brain—cortical blindness, where the patient firmly denies their loss of vision, as the disconnection between speech and visual pathways causes them to lose the concept of sight, filling in gaps with hallucinations—confabulations.
0wVLM TIL that natural gas was discovered serendipitously around 500 BC in China. Bamboo pipelines were used to transport the gas, which was used to boil salt water to extract salt.
R7X87 Today I learned Charlie Chaplin didn't actually have a mustache, it was a part of his makeup.
XE8rP TIL solitaire was included in Windows to teach people how to use a mouse in a graphical user interface