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TIL that IKEA once ran an ad that doubled as a pregnancy test

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b9vRa TIL that the reason men don't button the second button on their suit is because of an old king who was too fat to button it.
8j68 TIL of Carlos DeLuna, who was wrongly convicted of murder and executed for killing a gas station attendant. The police made no effort to investigate another man named Carlos who looked nearly identical to DeLuna. Evidence of his innocence would have taken less than a day of investigation to uncover
Z8QxQ TIL Jerry Garcia had more than a dozen side bands, and after spending months on the road with the Grateful Dead he would immediately start another tour with other musicians so he could keep playing live music.
jNYaQ TIL that Constantinople was renamed to Istanbul in the 1930s, by the Republic of Turkey, not the Ottomans after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
5VMar TIL that the most recent of Wayne Gretzky's 60 NHL records was set some time after his 1999 retirement. He averaged 1.921 points per game, which was second only to Mario Lemieux (2.005). Lemieux later came out of retirement and lowered his own average, moving Gretzky to the number one spot.