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TIL American women started shaving their armpits in 1915 because of advertisements in Harper’s Bazaar fashion magazine encouraging them to.

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byyN TIL that IKEA is a non-profit organization dedicated to “furthering the advancement of interior design.” This lets them pay a fraction of taxes they otherwise would. The owners make money by licensing the IKEA trademark to the non-profit side.
orN8 TIL, 90% of U.S. media: television, radio, news; is owned by only 6 corporations. One of which owns the top newspaper on 3 continents: The Wall Street Journal, The Sun, and The Australian.
oBrBE TIL one of the reasons the Chinese never fully developed gunpowder weaponry was because their walls could sustain artillery bombardments. Even 20th century artillery guns had trouble piercing their walls.
oBDQY TIL Back in 1985 Nintendo sued Magnavox, the company who made the first video game console, and tried to invalidate their patents
4Z7b TIL a group of wombats are called a wisdom.