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TIL the markup of wedding dresses is 3.9, meaning a $500 white dress costs almost $2000 if bought as a wedding dress. According to the study, even a dress sold as a "bridesmaid" dress costs 1.8 times more than a similar formal gown.

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JYn4v TIL That on September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.
mW0P TIL a group of researchers using sonar to look for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan found a Stonehenge-like structure 40 feet beneath the surface of the water - the formation could be as much as 10,000 years old.
rNNm4 TIL hummingbird feeders need daily cleaning in hot weather bc nectar spoils in heat & sickens the birds. Several ways to protect their food from overheating include: place feeders in shade, freeze nectar into small cubes & fill feeders with them to delay heating, wrap in foil, use glass feeders.
dD66d TIL Kepler discovered angular speeds of each planet at aphelion and perihelion, as measured from the Sun, produced consonant ratios. He wrote each planet followed scales: Mercury has the most musical range while Venus only has one note
N7AVe TIL about Swahili Time. The local clock is measured from sunrise (1pm) which replaces 7am Western time . In order to convert to local time you must add six hours to GMT (+3).