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TIL that Louis Vuitton burns all their unsold bags every year.

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EgxwW TIL the editors of prominent science journal Nature originally rejected the first research paper demonstrating MRI because the pictures were too fuzzy.
8eA5X TIL Wyoming passed a law that bans burying wind turbine blades in landfills
DQ9Dr TIL Horseshoe crab blood is a valuable medical resource used to test drugs, and medical devices for bacterial contamination.
W755d TIL that book selling dates back to ancient Greece and Rome—Athens had booksellers by 300 BC, and by the 1st century CE, Roman bookshops (tabernae librarii) were present near the Forum, in areas like the Argiletum and Vicus Sandalarius. A list of books for sale was posted on the door or side posts.
ep0Lb TIL about an expiriment called "the wave" conducted at a highschool in california, that explained why the germans around the Nazis didnt do anything about them murdering and persecuting their neighbors and family during world war 2.