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TIL Starbucks has a secret drink menu with over 25 different drink options

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p8dZN TIL that the first human name in recorded history is: Kushim. He signed his (or her) name at the bottom of a tablet that's over 5,000 years old, which was excavated in Sumer. Kushim signed at the bottom of the tablet to note how much barley they had on-hand.
R78M1 TIL even though diamonds are the hardest material known to man, they can be smashed and shattered by a hammer because hardness only determines how scratch resistant something is, not how strong it is.
J1lmB TIL that to satisfy a record contract, goth rocker Andrew Eldritch recorded an album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner.”
E1bP TILAfter the fall of Rome, a new illiterate Europe arose. The Irish saved civilization by copying lost books. These astonishingly decorated Irish manuscripts of the early medieval period are today the great jewels of libraries in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and even Russia.
yQ4nM TIL That bleach actually helps propagate mold instead of actually killing it I'll link the two users who brought this to my attention in the comments