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TIL: The patent for the Lego brick expired years ago, which is why copycat products like Mega Bloks are allowed to exist

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dDje9 TIL In the 16th century upper class women wore Visards when outside. The black, oval masks kept their faces from getting tanned, which was associated with the poor. Attached to it was a string with a glass bead a woman would hold in her mouth to keep the mask on.
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