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TIL that Ikea's founder, the late billionare Ingvar Kamprad, was incredibly frugal: He disciplines his employees for not using both sides of the paper. He was once turned away from Businessman Of The Year Award for arriving by bus, and assembled all his furniture himself.

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QJw96 TIL that in 2015 authorities in Germany seized a World War Two tank which was being kept in a senior's basement. The Panther tank was removed from the 78-year-old's house in the town of Heikendorf, along with a variety of other military equipment, including a torpedo and an anti-aircraft gun.
N7Re6 TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
E1RVX TIL that the 1971 Italian Grand Prix was the closest Formula 1 race ever - the winner was 0.01 seconds ahead of the runner-up, the 5th-place driver was only 0.61 seconds behind the winner, and the lead changed 26 times, with 8 different drivers holding the lead at some stage
jYnR TIL that soccer balls got their traditional, hexagonal, black-and-white Telstar design so that the ball could be more easily made out on black and white Television
VMOEQ TIL inspired by the well-known “ghosting” phenomenon, “soft ghosting” is described as slowly breaking off communication with someone by “liking” their text messages, but offering no genuine response or continuation of a conversation