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

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OvJg TIL of the Kalash people, a white-skinned, blue-eyed tribe in the back country of Pakistan, who claim to be descendants of the ancient Greeks.
oBgyr TIL that a 'knot' is tied in a single piece of rope. Something that ties two pieces of string together is called a 'bend'.
LpVp TIL that a book attributed to Penelope Ashe was actually written by a group of 24 journalists. It was designed to be deliberately terrible with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book became a bestseller in 1969.
pm4O TIL VLC Media Player uses a traffic cone as it’s logo because the students who created the program had a traffic cone collection.
4pNR TIL Google provides the number for the Suicide Prevention Hotline when presented with the search terms “i want to die”