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TIL IKEA is planning to be 100% energy-neutral by 2020.

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xV5w5 TIL that, while hospitalized after a 2008 plane crash, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was in so much pain that he repeatedly called friends and offered them one million dollars to assist him in committing suicide. Hospital staff eventually took his phone away.
bbm0 TIL that the words ‘under God’ were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 in response to the Communist threat of the times.
gArX TIL that in 1861, Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italy’s independence, volunteered his services to President Abraham Lincoln and was offered a Major General’s commission in the U.S. Army. His sole condition: that the war’s objective be declared as the abolition of slavery.
wLJNW TIL that in 1700s Transylvania the element Tellerium was discovered. This element is poisonus and, upon consumption, makes the breath of its consumer wreak of garlic.
aOmN TIL that the original border between North and South Carolina was marked with stones and marks on trees, and is now lost