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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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w9RE TIL Henry Ford was an anti Semite who wrote International Jew, and caused some Germans to become anti Semitic after reading this book.
NlW6 TIL of the almost 200 current member states of the United Nations, the British have, at some point in history, invaded and established a military presence in 171 of them.
oBmJL TIL: Moon looks reversed from Australia
Y7myx TIL Cao Xueqin is considered to be China's greatest novelist, but little is known of his life. He spent ten years writing "A Dream in Red Mansions" from 1740 to 1750 but the last chapters were written by a different author. The novel was not published until 1791, nearly 30 years after Cao's death
LoyV TIL that Scientology is considered a commercial enterprise in Switzerland.