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TIL Ikea uses 1% of the world’s wood supply to make its furniture

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oRZOY TIL All 3 of Jimmy Carter's siblings died of pancreatic cancer as well as his father
KlBJ TIL that throughout the film “Good Night, And Good Luck”, Joseph McCarthy was portrayed using real life clips, but a common complaint was that “the actor portraying him was too over-the-top”.
oKpY TIL a common prank in the 1800s involved putting the end of a thread from a spool through a clothes seam and getting unsuspecting strangers to try to pull out what they think is a loose thread. The spool unwound as they pulled, and the prankster enjoyed a jolly good laugh.
v1NMK TIL New York City paid more for Central Park than America paid for Alaska.
XEW1E TIL about Cargo Cults, an indigenist belief system in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the 2nd World War.