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TIL that sunglasses are so expensive because they’re a monopoly and 80% of them are manufactured by a company, Luxottica in Italy

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OooW7 TIL that Beatrix Potter, the author of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was also one of the leading mycologists of her time.
WGgB TIL that in 1982, while wearing his future wife Sharon’s dress, Ozzy Osbourne drunkenly urinated on a cenotaph erected in honour of those who died at the Alamo in Texas. He was arrested and subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio for 10 years.
E18oV TIL Python's official documentation encourages you to make Monty Python references in your code documentation, since that's what the language is named after.
NooJ TIL that Seinfeld was never meant to be a show about nothing, as it is often described, but rather the adventures of a comedian getting material for his show.
E1Jew TIL that India installed the world's highest public telephone booth on the 20,000-foot Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas, so soldiers could phone home.