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TIL that IKEA rugs were used for the Night’s Watch cloaks in Game of Thrones.

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78kbO TIL Due to retailer worries from the 1983 video game crash, WorldsOfWonder, creators of Teddy Ruxpin and Lazer Tag, used the popularity of their products to force American retailers into selling the Nintendo Entertainment System.
l7RB5 TIL that Canadian serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer told her pastor that she had murdered four people and the pastor kept his promise not to turn her in. She would go on to murder two others.
8V94 TIL: The most remote location on Earth lies in the South Pacific and is known as “Nemo Point”. So remote in fact, the closest humans to this point would be the astronauts on the ISS that occasionally drift overhead.
kOv9E TIL of the Vioxx scandal - a drug produced by Merck & Co, which resulted in the death of approximately 60,000 people. The company allegedly was aware of the side effects, and did not withdraw the drug from the market until FDA caught on. The company exists to this day.
4k4oX TIL Yoko Ono, the controversial former wife of the Beatles' John Lennon, is one of the most successful dance club artists on Billboard, with 13 #1 dance club hits and ranking as the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard