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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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d86wZ TIL the origins of Banjo Kazooie can be traced back to Project Dream. Developer Rare had spent 16 months developing the game. When Rare saw Super Mario 64, it made their project look outdated. The company completely then scrapped all work on Project Dream and began development on Banjo Kazooie.
g5pW TIL that the male urethra produces a spiral stream of urine that has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus (Where the urine exits the body). The lack of an equivalent mechanism in the female urethra partly explains why urinary tract infections occur so much more frequently in females
6AEl TIL There is a cloud of alcohol in space spanning 288 billion miles; contains enough to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
kQlB TIL that “bagpipe” in German literally translates to “toodle sack.”
OGk44 TIL that Aldi employees used to memorise the price of every item in store; the stores used to only stock 650 items and saved money on electronic sales systems to keep prices down. Aldi employees were paid much more than other supermarket workers, but those who failed 'the test' were sacked.