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TIL there's a mall in Sweden called ReTuna, where everything for sale is recycled, reused, or sustainably produced. Shop owners, including Ikea, refurbish and resell old products for shoppers to purchase.

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9LwM TIL The term “Sweet Death” refers to dying of hypothermia, because you feel an innocent desire to lie down and sleep. A certain feeling of wellness overcomes you. And with a sardonic ‘Mona Lisa’ smile on your face, you die.
kOBrB TIL of Joan Risch, Housewife who disappeared in 1960's from her blood-smeared house, leaving her children behind ; had checked out multiple books on disappearances from the local library before vanishing.
awVb TIL U.S. President Lyndon Johnson stood over people so close, they would bend backward. This is known as the Johnson treatment.
4p0g TIL that Stalin was only 5 ft 4 in tall. He had painters shot who didn’t depict him “right.”
NnZP TIL guards at New Mexico State Penitentiary had a “snitch game”. They would label inmates as snitches, let them be abused, and wait for them to turn into informants to escape their tormentors.