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

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ANAWB TIL scientists discovered lipopeptides that kill microbes so efficiently they named them after Keanu Reeves. Just as Keanu was extremely deadly he was in his films, ‘keanumycins’ are devastating to human-pathogenic fungi and plant fungal diseases.
wJeM TIL there is an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, that is home to 2,500 squatters. Residents have improvised basic utility services, use motorcycles to travel between the lower floors, and the building has many bodegas and an unlicensed dentist.
7r6mr TIL that the dairy industry once lost 420 million dollars to a genetic flaw in a single bull
XEb66 TIL that the New York Times has made some truly terrible predictions over the years, from Hitler being “not genuine” about anti-semitism, to approximating in 1903 that it would take between 1 - 10 million years before humans would create airplanes.
P1JZ TIL the Tesla Model S is road tested on an indoor track because their cars don’t produce any emissions.