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TIL three times more IKEA catalogues than Bibles are printed each year

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WkYdo TIL Sunflowers can help clean up radiation.
LQlkQ TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1921. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married two different women in different cities.
Kaoa TIL the Disney animated Jungle Book character, King Louie, is an Orangutan but in the live action version they changed him to a Gigantopithecus. Although extinct they once lived in forest throughout India, which avoids the movie perpetuating a geographic fallacy.
kJYn4 Til that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded her Christmas hit 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree'
1aJKP TIL about George Ray Tweed, one of six men to refuse to surrender to the Japanese on Guam in 1941. 5 were captured & beheaded. He avoided capture for two years and seven months when the USA recaptured the island.