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TIL IKEA products have names because the company’s dyslexic founder has an easier time remembering proper names. Also, those names follow set rules.

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7vgZ TIL a Russian immigrant to NY in the 1920s, Lillian Alling was so homesick that she resolved to walk home to Siberia. She walked an estimated 5000 miles in 3 years, serving a few months in jail for vagrancy in Canada, and was last sighted on the banks of the Bering Strait.
xeD1 TIL the word “nuclear” was dropped from “nuclear magnetic resonance imaging” out of concern of anti-nuclear sentiments.
VBLLB TIL President Jimmy Carter advocated citizens to advance global peace and hospitality through the Friendship Force. Anyone can join.
GVnE TIL that the US embargo against Cuba (53 years so far) has been condemned by the majority of the United Nations 19 times since 1992 and is considered ILLEGAL by all nations but Israel, the Republic of Palau and the US itself
vPRMx TIL Virgil McCroskey purchased 4,400 acres of land for tourism in Idaho on the condition he maintain it himself for 15 years; McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly 15 more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.