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TIL In 1997, a 47-year-old man from Houston, Texas, decided to make it his life's mission to visit every Starbucks location in the world. By 2019, he had already visited 15,000 Starbucks shops and spent at least $150,000 on the hobby.

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QK1d TIL: Aitzaz Hasan, 15 yr old boy, died when he bravely confronted a suicide bomber walking towards his school which resulted in early detonation of the bomb. His action saved the lives of hundreds of students.
DOBg TIL that there is a film parody of “The Blair Witch Project” titled “Da Hip Hop Witch,” which features appearances by Eminem, Ja Rule, Mobb Deep, Pras, Rah Digga, Vitamin C and Vanilla Ice.
R74G9 TIL an MIT researcher was concerned about the censorship of human genitalia on extraterrestrial messages, so he recorded & transmitted the sound of ballerinas' vaginas contracting. The Air Force terminated the project, but test messages made it to two nearby stars in 1996 & 1998.
b9BNZ TIL In Sri Lanka bread is delivered fresh starting at 5:30AM, in special TukTuks playing Beethoven's Für Elise loudly. While Für Elise is the song of choice for choon paan sellers, it’s not used exclusively, and some opt for Christmas carols, It’s a Small World, or other equally ubiquitous tunes.
b6Wmp TIL of Hægri dagurinn ("The right day"), the day that Iceland changed from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic. The change occurred formally on May 26, 1968, at 6:00 am - The only injury from the changeover was a boy on a bicycle who broke his leg.