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TIL that IKEA, the Swedish furniture chain, is actually pronounced "ee-kay-uh", not "eye-kee-uh"

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14e7 TIL Nazi Germany produced Chlorine Trifluoride for use as a dual purpose incendiary and poison gas in WW2. ClF3 causes almost anything to spontaneously explode on contact, including wood, concrete, sand, gravel, glass, asbestos, water, and of course flesh.
XEG7R TIL The 1st ever jazz recording was offered to Freddie Keppard, but he refused: instead, that honour went to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, an all-white band, who had a $million hit "Livery Stable Blues", which came from a song Keppard had performed.
0w7XM TIL that the Japanese and the Chinese use the same symbol for their currencies called the Yen(¥)
OoAP1 TIL that although no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by the managing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s.
Qea TIL Dolphins in Hawaii like to hitch rides on humpback whales and literally use their massive heads as slides