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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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wge6 TIL Second Chance Coffee Co. in Illinois conducts FBI background checks to make sure those seeking employment with the company have actually been to prison because the company only hires ex-inmates.
mDLR TIL lemons are a manmade hybrid of an orange and a citron
ANK1g TIL that John Clem is the youngest noncommissioned officer in the history of the United States Army at the age of 12.
E1lgx TIL about Hideki Okamoto who became Karate teacher for Syrian government after using Karate to resist capture by armed security for nearly an hour while inebriated
J1Ynv TIL in 1944, an American named Robert Earl Hughes was drafted into the US Army. At the time, he weighed over 700 pounds and was able to walk without any assistance. He served 21 months.