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TIL Ikea is run as a non-profit to take advantage of significant tax breaks.

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kJZL7 TIL After defeating the French and capturing King Francis in battle 1525, Emperor Charles V agreed to release Francis in exchange for a treaty instead of invading France, which led contemporaries like Machiavelli to call him "mad" and a "fool". As soon as he was released, Francis annuled the treaty
GLe5 TIL of the “Women Are Wonderful” effect: that people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman’s in-group bias was 4 times greater than men’s.
e7lk TIL that HSBC was actually founded by and for drug trafficers bringing opium into China
vP447 TIL that so many people were killed in the Battle of Changping which lasted from 262-260 BC that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s
p8nKZ TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.