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TIL that Ikea acquired TaskRabbit in 2017

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QNj6k TIL From 1897-1903 Imperial Germany constructed plans to invade the United States to sever its growing economic and political connections in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, and South America. Hints of the German plans were first found by scholar Alfred Vagts in the 1930s and published in 1940.
5YVdr TIL That the iPhone (and smartphones in general) have negatively impacted the sale of gum because people are more consumed with their phones and are less inclined to impulse buy when waiting to checkout at a store.
g4gL TIL that in 2014 a potential new state of matter called “disordered hyperuniformity” was discovered in the eye of a chicken.
epwX4 TIL that potato plants are poisonous. The part that we eat is the only edible part of the whole plant. It's also a member of the nightshade family.
lV65 TIL Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as symbiosis. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects.