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TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered the cast of Jersey Shore "substantial payment" to stop wearing their brand

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R50R7 TIL Balenciaga sells a $700 high heel Croc
d8dlQ TIL Emilio Salgari, Italy's greatest adventure writer and the "Father of Spaghetti Western", never traveled outside Italy, all he knew about foreign cultures he learned from books and travel manuals.
gr6nX TIL The bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) converted only about 0.7 grams of mass to energy. This is roughly 1/3 the mass of a dime.
DKmg TIL: In France, if you deny the Holocaust, you might get prison time between 1-5 years and a fine.
pbA TIL annually Paris experiences nearly 20 cases of mental break downs from visiting Japanese tourists, whom cannot reconcile the disparity between the Japanese popular image of Paris and the reality of Paris.