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TIL that The Empire State Building has its own postcode

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kNv1 TIL the name IKEA is an acronym composed of Ingvar Kamprad (the name of the founder), Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown in southern Sweden)
9YLR7 TIL Rudolf Mößbauer, age 32, won the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the Mößbauer effect named after him. During the Cold War he was one of the first to organize Seminars with Soviet physicists, long before this became feasible for US colleagues
VBogZ TIL that the NFL made a committee to falsify information to cover up brain damage in their players
OGElY TIL Attila the Hun died not in battle, but of a nosebleed after his wedding feast. It is thought he choked on blood.
VAjG TIL A German man was locked up in a high-security psychiatric hospital for claiming that a bank was involved with money-laundering, and was released years later when the bank was raided for money-laundering.