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TIL Kanye West’s brand has a plain white t-shirt going for $120, and it’s sold out

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VLWQ TIL: Super Bowl referees also receive Super Bowl rings.
J50k TIL LA was the first major city to sync all it’s traffic lights, doing so in 2015 after initially promising to do so in 1984. The completed synchronization supposedly increased travel speed by 16 percent and reduced travel times by 12 percent.
kOyEm TIL of the 2003 Congo Air Disaster, when upwards of 200 people were sucked out of the plane to their deaths when the cargo door failed.
jvPN TIL that harvesting cork from the cork tree does not kill it, and regrows fully in 9 years.
7rdbX TIL of the time footballer (later manager) Mark Hughes played in two matches, in two separate countries, on the same day. In November 1987, he played for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague. After the game he was quickly flown to Germany where he came on as a substitute for Bayern Munich.