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TIL Ikea is technically a non-profit organization dedicated to researching interior design and this structure allows it to keep its corporate taxes under 4%

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Z887p TIL Jews are often associated as scheming merchants who love money because in the Middle Ages Christians were forbidden to lend out money with interest, Jews were not.
GYV1j TIL that while Alcoholics Anonymous claims the program, based on self-reported data, worked for 75 percent of people, a psychiatry professor from Harvard Medical School found the success rate to be actually only 5 to 8 percent.
1anBr TIL that only 8% of NFL’s Pink Breast Cancer Awareness sales goes to charity
OGLvL TIL the termite queen can live for up to 50yrs, lays an egg every 3 sec, 24hrs a day, for 25yrs.
R5dK6 TIL the oldest running automobile, built in 1884, was sold in 2011 for $4.6 million.