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TIL IKEA made an ASMR video to promote college dorm furniture.

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9w4gD TIL of the estimated ~1100 eponymous "Stradavarius" instruments made by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) only about 58% are thought to survive.
DOng TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. He told her to give him the money and get a receipt. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow’s home.
1OrD TIL that Vasily Zaytsev, a Soviet sniper with over 242 confirmed kills and 500 rumoured kills, became so good at shooting due to his peasant childhood; his family was too poor to afford many bullets, and hence he was forced to learn to take one shot per animal.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.
6EXBZ TIL that the painting Liberty Leading the People is not about the French Revolution or republicanism. It commemorates the July Revolution, which replaced the reigning king with a different man.