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TIL that 75% of the images in Ikea's product catalogue were computer generated...in 2014

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ZpYBp TIL Dave Thomas shaped KFC as we know it
wvY7 TIL There are secret poems written on Boston’s sidewalks that are only visible when it rains.
7PGr TIL Slinkys were used in the Vietnam war as mobile radio antennas. They would sling the Slinky over branches and extend the range of their radios
wLoe8 Everybody knows not to shine laser pointers in your eye. They could damage your vision! (Emphasis on could, since your eye’s blink reflex would probably protect your retina.) But what if you were an evil villain determined to make a death ray? How many laser pointers would it take to create a deadly weapon?
xV7do TIL that in 2003 DC released a comic miniseries depicting a Superman raised in the Soviet Union. He was used by Joseph Stalin to spread the fear of communism throughout the world.