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

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5VLp TIL Comedian Richard Pryor grew up in his grandmother’s brothel in Peoria, IL. He once saw his mother performing sex acts with the Mayor.
9Op7 TIL that Patrice Lumumba ,the first democratically elected PM of Congo and a pan-Africanist, lasted only 81 days before being killed by the Belgians and the CIA
JPVj TIL that Mary Babnik Brown was chosen to donate her hair (which had never been treated with heat or chemicals) to become the crosshairs on Norden bombsights during WWII.
RYl8 TIL that Adidas, a German company, gave Jesse Owens free shoes to run in at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
kOO6m TIL the use of the word “scoop” in the context of news stories started with fisherman scooping water sealed boxes (full of news) out of the ocean and delivering them to land before wired transatlantic communications negated the need to do so.