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TIL Oakley had a pricing dispute with conglomerate Luxottica who responded by dropping the brand in all their stores, causing Oakley’s stock to drop. Luxottica then bought out the company. They own Sunglasses Hut, LensCrafters, PearleVision, Target Optical, and several licenses such as Ray-Ban.

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grBeb TIL in 2016 pop band OK Go recorded a video for their song "Upside Down & Inside Out" in zero gravity aboard a 'reduced gravity aircraft' (AKA vomit comet). The 3-minute video required over 45 minutes of footage shot over 21 different flights.
grn4D TIL scientists aren't entirely certain what evolutionary advantage we get from our ability to taste sourness. The other main tastes are know to either draw us to particular nutrients or steer us away from toxins, but we're not so sure about sour.
5YZj8 TIL: 3 out of the 4 CSI series' main characters are actually based on real life scientists or detectives. CSI: NY is the only one truly fictional
YWmd TIL the test pilot for the first american jet plane wore a Gorilla mask, a Durby hat, and a Cigar just to mess with other pilots he buzzed. The Pilots were then convinced they were crazy for having seen a Airplane without a propeller with a monkey at the controls.
a8nDb TIL of the Wild Dolphin Project & of its founder Dr Denise Herzing. For the last 35 years they have been studying & learning how to communicate with wild dolphins. She describes in one of her books how a group of dolphins sensed the death of a passenger on her boat & escorted the boat back to shore.