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TIL Ikea is actually a Non-profit “dedicated to furthering the advancement of architecture and interior design”

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l79La TIL about America's first Olympics in 1904 where, during the marathon athletes drank poison, dodged traffic, stole peaches and hitchiked!
wLAj6 TIL about Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor who was shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula in 1511 and taken as a slave by a Mayan lord. He earned his freedom, became a respected Mayan warrior, and died fighting Spanish colonization of indigenous lands.
Olra TIL that rock band KISS uses a different logo in Germany to avoid confusion with the Nazi SS logo
ynLe TIL That GPS is wholly controlled by the USA and can be ‘switched off’ at any time.
m1Oly TIL that Hamida al-Attas, Osama Bin Laden's mother, was just 14 years old at the time when she became Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (48 years old) concubine before she was impregnated and married off to Mohammed Bin Laden's business associate, Mohammed al-Attas.