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TIL that nearly all designer sunglasses and eyeglasses are made by Luxottica Group, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Chanel, and Prada.

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nWnZ7 TIL Modern torpedoes do not work by hitting a ship's hull. Instead they detonate directly underneath the ship, exploiting the "bubble jet effect"
N70QJ TIL rock star success was once highly regional. In June 1976 Bob Seger played to 78,000 fans in Detroit, only to play to less than 1,000 in Chicago the very next day
P1EyO TIL Ancient DNA shows that the culture that brought Bronze Age technology to Britain was connected to a migration that almost completely replaced the island's earlier inhabitants, the latter who were the Neolithic communities responsible for huge megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge.
d8m59 TIL the worlds largest scale model of the Solar system exist in Sweden. The Sun is a large spherical arena in Stockholm with 110m in diameter. 300km north of it is Pluto, a small sphere of 12 cm in diameter constructed next to a lake believed to have been created by a meteorite impact.
gMX9y TIL: In 1997 500 Chinese locals dug a road into the mountains to retrieve the bodies of two US airmen found in their crashed B24 after a raid on Japan.