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TIL Grado Labs headphones has never advertised once in its entire 61 year history. It has instead relied on word of mouth from audiophiles.

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KOWa4 TIL about the Babushka Lady, an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot.
Y7aJP TIL the town of Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico was named after a game show in 1950, in a bid to host a live broadcast of the show. The town's old name was Hot Springs.
4995 TIL that “The Final Countdown” was never intended as a hit, but was intended to be used as an opening for their concerts.
G6y1 TIL that a 23 year old French con artist impersonated and assumed the identity of a 16 year old missing Texas boy, living with the boy’s family for months, despite retaining his French accent and having different colored eyes from the missing teen.
B4NW TIL that a team at MIT invented a camera that can capture 1 trillion frames per second, enough to see light travel in slow motion.