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TIL A $400+ pair of Beats By Dre costs about $14 to make.

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QwLe TIL that SCOTUS ruled in 1927 that forced sterilizations were legal and to this day, that decision has not been overturned.
dgD9 TIL 1) a goat reached the rank of lance corporal in the British Army and 2) got demoted for inappropriate behavior during the Queen’s Official Birthday.
neMdY TIL Earwigs care for their young and sometimes eat ass
E1MVV TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
WkVnL TIL the word mile originates from the measurement of one thousand paces of a Roman soldier (mille passus)