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TIL Ikea has clear structure around the naming of their products. Beds and wardrobes - Norweigan place names, Chairs/Desks - men's names, Kitchen items - foreign works, spices, herbs, and fish, Curtains - mathematical terms.

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xVDe1 TIL That ancient Greeks hung a branch of bay over the door of a sick person to fend off evil and death. This led to the garlanding of newly qualified doctors with a bay wreath, known as the Bacca laureus in Latin, which gave us the word "baccalaureate" (University Degree).
yQnna TIL in the 1920s, Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal was once arrested for displaying Bolshevik symbols, , becoming inebriated in a public bar and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir, the Prime Minister, and the law
dEEZ TIL - In the late 1980s, Iraq began building the largest artillery piece in history, a gun that could have put satellites into Orbit, and conceivably hit any spot on the planet. However, the mysterious assassination of its Canadian designer, and the first Gulf War, ended the project
oRgB7 TIL Man Still in Prison After Daughter Admits She Lied About Abuse When She Was 9
R51Ka TIL of the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling, an annual event in Gloucestershire, England where participants race down a steep hill after a wheel of cheese. There are usually several injuries every year, with the winner of the 2023 womens' race finishing while unconscious.