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TIL in 2011 nearly 2/3s of all $100+ headphones sold in the US were Beats.

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m1NXE TIL from 1948 to 1952, future West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was a paid informant on the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps, providing reports on the situation in East Germany.
wyW1 TIL that in 1937, the Soviets started construction of the 1,624ft ‘Palace of the Soviets’ tower (almost as tall as the Taipei 101 tower) with a huge (328ft tall) statue of Lenin on the top. WWII stopped construction, and the foundations were turned into the world’s largest swimming pool
7jp TIL Aral sea, once the 4th biggest lake in the world, has shrunk to only 10% of it’s size due to soviet irrigation projects.
9w6A6 TIL that after reading the first draft of "Smokey and the Bandit", Burt Reynolds told its director Hal Needham that it was the worst script he had ever read, but that he would still make the movie. Most of the dialogue in the movie was improvised on set.
LEM9 TIL the NFL’s use of pink is a marketing ploy to attract female viewers and hardly any money goes to cancer research