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TIL we’ve been trying to build the hyperloop since 1799

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BrLWd TIL that typing an asterisk at the start of a sentance in Microsoft word automatically creates a bullet point.
KO0dw Today I learned the name "IKEA" is actually an acronym that stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. Ingvar Kamprad is the founder's name while Elmytrad is his farm name and Agunnaryd is his hometown.
78WxX TIL that Julius Caesar had a comb-over which he was self-conscious about
10w4 TIL Claudette Colvin was the actually first African-American woman to refuse to move to the back of the bus nine months before Rosa Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent the movement as she was 15 years old and pregnant.
m1lbp TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race