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TIL Vinyl records are making a comeback, with sales up 18% in the last year to 1.4% of the total market, and LP factories are working at capacity.

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0e4y TIL During Prohibition, bootlegger William S. McCoy became famous for never watering down his beer or booze as opposed to many who did so to stretch profits. As a result, people starting calling his products, “the real McCoy.”
yQ81w TIL McDonalds owned and helped boost Chipotle to nearly 500 locations, but sold it in 2006 because it was a distraction.
9YNVM TIL of the Mayak nuclear facility: A nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia that has exposed 450,000 to radiation and was caught dumping untreated nuclear waste in the river from 2001-2004.
KYyY6 TIL that when his production company could not afford a major star for his first western, director Sergio Leone hired a man with no name at the time in Hollywood and commented about him that he “had two expressions: with hat and no hat“ - Clint Eastwood.
vY78 TIL that people with red hair need greater amounts of anesthetic than people of any other hair color. Also other studies show that women with naturally colored red hair require less painkillers.