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TIL that all the photos of ikea products you find in their catalogs are not even real photos. They create all the furniture in a 3D program and place them in different scenes (like a kitchen). Then they render it so realistically that you can't distinguish it from a real photo. Since 2004!

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JYZoj TIL that Godzilla is a registered citizen in Japan.
YDQr TIL “The Powerpuff Girls” were originaly called “The Whoopass Girls”
Moob TIL that when Louisiana law enforcement refused to act in a timely manner, a kidnapping victim’s family got their guns, tracked down her captor, killed him and ultimately saved her.
16DoW TIL that in 2012 Slovak Lawmakers made a public poll asking for the name for a new bridge between Slovakia and Austria. 'Chuck Norris Bridge' won overwhelmingly
VMp7Z TIL that Adolphe Sax (Inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him "Little Sax, the ghost"