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TIL that on 9/11 a Starbucks nearby ground zero charged rescue workers $130 for 3 cases of water. The company knew about it for weeks and eventually mailed a $130 check to the ambulance company, but only after a journalist ran a piece on 25 September 2001

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ybWJ TIL Ger Frits, a man from Amsterdam has organised the funerals of the 20 or so people who die completely alone each year. He places flowers on the coffin and accompanies it on its last journey. A poem is also written for the dead person and read at their funeral
LQBpr TIL one of the ways to make Okinawan snake wine involves putting the snake on ice until it passes out, at which point it is gutted, bled and sewn up. When the viper is thawed and awakens, it will quickly die in an aggressive striking manner, which is what most producers look for.
BrjxD TIL in 35th fastest supercomputer in the world in 2010 was The Condor Cluster built by the US Air Force from over 1700 PS3s linked together running Linux
Oo8D7 TIL when dogs sleep their paws heat up, triggering more bacteria activity, causing their paws to smell like corn chips.
XEYoP TIL after a secret program conducted by the US in the Marshal Islands in the 1950s, parts of the island complex still have radiation higher than Chernobyl or Fukushima even so many decades after the now declassified experiment