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TIL that rather than put any items on sale, Louis Vuitton burns all of its unsold bags each year. This is how they keep their product extremely unattainable and upscale; also, 99% of all LV bags you see are fake.

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NXAMQ TIL that the term “proof” in regard to liquor dates back to an arbitrary test in 16th century England of determining alcohol volume by soaking gunpowder with it and attempting to light it on fire.
Ovwe TIL J.R.R. Tolkien started the Hobbit while grading examination papers. He found a blank page in one of the exams. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
b6ebp TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 320-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 30 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.
1aoJV TIL Modern cars are designed to be essentially air-tight. This has been causing a lot of deaths in the past decade where children have suffocated after being in cars for hours. Never sleep in your car with the windows rolled up - the dash vents are insufficient at providing adequate oxygen exchange.
rNKyW TIL Brian Eno created Ambient music while recovering from an accident. A record was playing too quietly and he was unable to leave his bed to increase the volume. Only just being able to hear the music over the outside rain gave him the idea for music that didn't impose itself on someone's space.