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TIL; After Monster Cable's contract for Beats by Dr. Dre ended in 2012, they experienced a decline in staffing to currently "less than 10 people"

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9Y44m TIL that Mount Rushmore is built in the black hills, a mountain range considered sacred to the Lakota tribe which the United States took in 1876. "Members of the American Indian Movement led an occupation of the monument in 1971, naming it "Mount Crazy Horse"
78n4x TIL about the Memory of the World Programme: an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity. It includes, for example, the Gutenberg Bible, Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven, and humanity's first recordings of its own voice
W7ZwN TIL Winston Churchill left behind a debt of Rs. 13/- at the Bangalore Club, India which was written off by the committee on 01.06.1899 as an ‘irrecoverable sum’.
GAvN7 TIL Infants of high-BMI mothers may eat more enthusiastically, with more sucks per minute. Until age 2 there are no differences between infants of high-BMI (>30) and low-BMI (<20) mothers in terms of size, fatness and growth
OGPVL TIL a Jiffy is a real unit of time (a jiffy is about 3 × 10 to the power of minus 24 seconds)