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

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dDVoZ TIL about the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which took place on August 27, 1896. It was just a thirty-eight minute war between the British Empire and the East African island nation of Zanzibar, making it the shortest war in history.
Y5kP TIL German and Swedish passports are the most powerful passports in the world. The least powerful is from Afghanistan.
Y7V9x TIL that Mbaye Diagne was a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. Diagne is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
GNBJ TIL that Robert Downey Jr. finally quit drugs in 2003 when his new girlfriend (NOT BURGER KING) gave him an ultimatum. She is unofficially known around Hollywood as the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey Jr.
kJJd5 TIL: The Persians once used an army of cats to the defeat the Egyptian Army