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TIL Sweden's tourism board highlights places that want to reclaim their names from the products that IKEA named after them

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AOYB TIL Saddam Hussein had a Quran written using his blood. It is considered sinful to write out the Quran in blood, but it is also forbidden to defile or deface it. One Iraqi was quoted as saying “"It is forbidden to write the Qur'an in blood, but how could we destroy the holy book from God?”
OGgyY TIL that the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris was considered so ugly by some that there was a plan to put up a full-sized Statue of Liberty in front to hide it.
R5Rj4 TIL about the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. The daughter of Thutmose I and his first wife, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, and was his first wife. When Thutmose II died, she became regent for the baby Thutmose III, her husband's heir by another wife. She ruled 22 years until her death.
Lk04P TIL a man in NYC was punched in the face for looking like Shia LaBeouf. When the story caught the real LaBeouf’s attention, he offered the man his phone number and apologized profusely in a voicemail
VMWW4 TIL employees at MillerCoors get three free cases of beer each month, in addition to having access to beer and cider on location after a work day.