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TIL that Louis Vuitton burns surplus bags and products at the end of each year. This maintains exclusivity of the brand and ensures that their products are never sold at a discounted rate.

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P1grO TIL that between 2010 and 2012, Jerome Powell worked on getting Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling during the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. He presented the implications to the economy and interest rates of a default or a delay in raising the debt ceiling. He worked for a salary of $1 per year.
1aK0O TIL Meilleurs Ouvriers de France , is an honorary title given to the best Chefs in France, since 1920 only 200 have been awarded, the candidates show high technical skills : Pollack in one dish has to be pierced in four places by Herring Lardons, the latter imparts its saltiness into the Pollack.
yQgLw TIL about two guys who used a decommissioned Atlas Missile Silo to produce an estimated 90% of the LSD sold in America in the late 90's and early 2000s.
X0M4Q TIL Surya Bonaly landed a back flip on one foot during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics
Lka1m TIL Male chess grandmasters outnumber female chess grandmasters fifty-to-one.