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TIL: McDonald’s coffee is higher rated than Starbuck’s Coffee

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a8OoZ TIL a brinicle is formed when sea ice cracks and leaks saline water to the open ocean. The heavier-than-water brine sinks to the ocean floor while freezing the fresh water it comes in contact with, growing downward. A brinicle reaching the sea floor can catch creatures like sea urchins and starfish
neKwP TIL More People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets. According to a UN report from 2015, 2.5 billion of the world's 7 billion people lack access to a toilet, particularly in areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. While another report put the number of mobile phone users at 6 billion.
eYQg TIL that people build “spite houses” to piss off their neighbors.
akeo TIL - Russian Crimean War debt was so large that Alexander II, realizing the difficulty of defending Alaska, decided to sell it to the United States, in 1867
Z8BGG TIL Only 1 pair of boxing gloves from the Roman Empire period have ever been found despite having numerous artistic representations of the objects. They were found in 2018 in Vindoland, north of England close to the Hadrian Wall.