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TIL that Dr. Dre has made more money from making headphones than he did making music.

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69Q7m TIL that in Ireland and Germany, same-sex incest is legal but opposite-sex incest is illegal
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P1PNe TIL that the British were the first to call the sport "soccer," as a shortening of "association football"
nWmWY TIL that the oldest known printed advertisement was a Chinese needle ad from 3000 years ago
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