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TIL: 75% of IKEA’s product images are not photographs
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mxgav
TIL freshly cut grass smells the way it does because it’s a shriek of dispair
kJA6g
TIL that some pirate codes forbid the crew from seducing a woman, sneaking her on board the ship and taking her out to sea. This offense was punishable by death.
M7krb
TIL that the earliest generation with a formal name ("Arthurian Generation") is, coincidentally, Generation A by the informal lettered system. The only ones that DON'T from there are Q (often lumped in with P), X (the first to even get a letter), Z (names proposed but disputed), and α (too recent).
J5gv
TIL There is an “Apple Tree Colony” in Ukraine across 10k sqft consisting of only one tree that spread naturally by creating roots from it’s branches (as a gooseberry shrub does). Scientist have not been able to reproduce this with other apple trees.
W77o9
TIL about the Krupp family. A 400 year old dynasty of weapons manufactures that been selling weapons since the thirty years war and were the premier weapons manufactures for Germany during both world wars. They still exist today after merging with Thyssen to form the ThyssenKrupp corporation.