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TIL the first "Seven Wonders" lists came guidebooks popular with Hellenic sightseers that date from the 2nd-1st century BC.

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AN7Vo TIL that Ikea acquired TaskRabbit in 2017
Br0OL TIL Mr & Mrs Crompton and their six children were the largest family to die in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Travelling first class to England, they were known as being noisy during the voyage, even causing one woman to switch rooms because of it.
JY8Z1 TIL in 2016, an octopus named Inky mysteriously disappeared from New Zealand's National Aquarium. A wet trail later revealed he escaped his tank through a small hole, slid across the floor at night and squeezed his body through a pipe leading to the ocean.
RN4a TIL that despite consistently losing double blind taste tests, Coca Cola owns nearly double the market share of Pepsi.
Ak5g TIL George Lucas gave a speech in 1988 to Congress about the need to protect films from being altered. “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”