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TIL Balenciaga sells a $700 high heel Croc

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m14vo TIL that the Beatles toured North America in 1964, playing 32 shows at 26 different venues in just 33 days. During the tour they made about $1 Million, which would be about $7.5 Million today.
Z8mPG TIL that in 2006, some army units used Silly String to check enemy encampments for trip wires. Before entering a building, soldiers would squirt the string across the room. If it fell to the ground, it was safe. But if it hung in the air, they knew the room had trip wires.
xVRW1 TIL that leftist mural artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a mural in the lobby of Rockefeller Center. His mural included a portrait of Lenin, leading the Rockefellers to cancel the commission and destroy the unfinished mural. Rivera later recreated the piece in Mexico.
ZP9Q TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead
Egrwp TIL about the Horsey Horseless, an early car that had a wooden horse’s head attached to it