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TIL the sad lamp from IKEA’s acclaimed 2002 commercial was taken home by a crew member at the end of the shoot. When the ad agency asked for it back, they received a note saying “See? you’ve fallen for it. You’ve grown attached to the lamp, and you are crazy.”

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XK6X TIL that during World War 2, the British captured Germans and put them in a bugged mansion where they served them wine and food and thus they were able to gather important intelligence from casual conversations between the ‘prisoners’ that helped them greatly win the war
xad1 TIL that in 1943 three Belgian men held up a train and liberated 200 Jews using only one gun and some wire cutters.
ZpXp TIL that overweight and obese people now outnumber starving and malnourished people.
xVbe7 TIL that before a key battle in Alexander the Great's campaign in Persia, the Persian king offered Alexander generous terms for peace. One of Alexander's generals is said to have remarked: "I would accept the terms, if I were you". Alexander responded: "So would I, if I were you". He won.
ANMA7 TIL that planet Vulcan was a small hypothetical planet proposed in 1859 to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun, this hypothesis has been disproven in 1915 by Einstein's theory of relativity