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TIL IKEA is an acronym, a charity, and depicted the first gay couple in an ad (and more).

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VMXYQ TIL One way around alcohol prohibition in the USA was to have your doctor prescribe it for you; Winston Churchill had a script
9P4Q TIL the original ending for “Pretty in Pink” had Molly Ringwald reject Andrew McCarthy to dance with Jon Cryer to David Bowie’s “Heroes.” Test audiences booed this outcome, and John Hughes was forced to reshoot the ending, with Ringwald and McCarthy getting back together.
yVb5a TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.
APx4 TIL that The Dark Knight was the first Batman movie to not have the word Batman in the title and also to not have any bats throughout the film
QK7k TIL that until 2011, anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia was just considered foodstuff.