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

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GRZQ TIL It’s been 16 years since the U.S Department of Defense has been able to perform a financial audit. In 2001 $2.3 Trillion were unaccounted for.
4kD5X TIL ageism is self fulfilling
l71Y1 TIL that muscles, which we eat, start out as parasites
K5oG TIL 12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world’s first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
kJ4OB TIL DMX was the first artist to have their first 5 albums debut at #1