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TIL that Daft Punk’s helmets cost $65,000 to produce

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78emO TIL In 2002, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to test the Infinate Monkey Theorem by studying the literary output of real monkeys.
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