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

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XkQP TIL In 2010 Feminist Claire Perry unsuccessfully tried to pressure ISPs into automatically blocking pornography, forcing users to “opt-in”. She is the current ‘Porn Advisor’ to David Cameron
DQm8J TIL that public dancing is banned in Germany on Good Friday.
lo4Xa TIL The main accusers of The Salem Witch Trials were a group of girls and young women from Salem Village who are often referred to as the “afflicted girls” because they claimed that witches were afflicting them by attacking them and making them ill.
grBy9 TIL the US Government spends nearly $20,000 per citizen every year
mx6XR TIL about Massopora, a fungus which infects 13 and 17 year cycle cicadas. It can dissolve the gonads of males, cause their butts to fall off, turning them into "flying zombie salt shakers", and can also change the behavior of some males to make them trick other males into trying to breed with them.