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TIL Beats and Beats Counterfeit Headphones Are Nearly Identical from the Parts Up.

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49ko TIL King Edward VII was too fat to fully button his suit jacket. In order to not offend the king, everyone else followed suit. A trend was born…
b9lMa TIL Wimbledon employs a bird of prey, Rufus the Hawk, to keep pigeons away from the tennis courts.
WkVm9 TIL during the entire filming of Mary Poppins, NOBODY, not even Julie Andrews, let Dick Van Dyke know he had the “most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema.”
L1xP TIL The first woman to break the sound barrier was an american WWII veteran. Her own government denied her use of a plane, so she asked the Canadian military. They loaned her a plane plus 16 crew AND shipped them to California so she could break the record even though she wasn’t a citizen.
VMM4 TIL Rats, when orally administered fullerenes, lived nearly 100% longer without negative effects