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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.

kOlym TIL that the creators of Shrek took mud showers to study “fluid dynamic simulation” for the movie. The art director also took a trip to a magnolia plantation to learn how to properly render Shrek’s swamp. He was chased by an alligator.
6EjRX TIL Christopher Columbus' efforts to obtain support for his voyages were hampered not by belief in a flat Earth but by valid worries that the East Indies were farther than he realized. In fact, Columbus grossly underestimated the Earth's circumference and caused he and his crew's near starvation.
yQbBw TIL Porsche tried to replace its flagship car, the 911, with the bigger, more luxurious 928, but people kept buying the iconic 911. The 911 still hadn’t had a major redesign since its birth in 1963, and only received one in 1998, three years after the 928 went out of production.
QJnWe TIL that our body odor could change because we're stuck at home ! Our smells come from the microbes living on our skin, and since we only have a few other people to swap microbes with, we're going to start smelling like the people we're cooped up with—making us smellier if they have smellier microbe
eXX4 TIL Keanu Reeves got the role for Neo in The Matrix because Will Smith turned it down in order or shoot Wild Wild West