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TIL Starbucks spends more on health insurance for its employees than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee.

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7yXb TIL that a man in Saudi Arabia installed a fridge on the street and stocks it with free food for the homeless people in his neighborhood.
geW4 TIL that in 1983 a group of Aussie friends started a quest to drink a beer at every pub in Melbourne. 32 years and 476 pubs later they completed their quest…
ra80 TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Ku Klux Klan helped fund the monument.
8kjL TIL that the chanting in Star Wars’ iconic song “Duel of the Fates” is not a gibberish alien language, but a Sanskrit translation of a medieval Welsh poem. Other chants in the Star Wars series make use of Sanskrit as well.
XvWr TIL that in Japan, the sales of adult diapers have surpassed the sales of baby diapers.