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TIL: IKEA uses a technique called ‘bulla bulla’ - a bunch of items are purposely jumbled in bins to create the impression of volume and, therefore, inexpensiveness

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R71YQ TIL that as the Queen of Jamaica, Elizabeth II is referred to as "Missis Queen" or "The Queen Lady"
ND8N TIL in the 1920s, as a joke, newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told to develop a frosted lightbulb, which the experienced engineers believed to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment, and astonished his peers by succeeding.
grOa9 TIL Only 15 of 38 starters finished the men's individual cross country event at the 1924 Summer Olympics due to a difficult course, 40°C weather and noxious fumes emitted from a nearby power plant.
epxn5 TIL: Zheng Yi, was a powerful pirate lord who married a floating brothel Madame to combine his might and her information web. This led to the foundation of the Red Flag Fleet, one of the most powerful fleets in China. He then died, and his wife married their stepson and became a female pirate lord.
m1xYv TIL of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese Opera Singer turned spy who obtained secrets from a French embassy worker for twenty years by masquerading as a woman during their sexual affair. He even took a child and pretended it was theirs.