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TIL Starbucks spends more on health insurance for its employees than on coffee.

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PRxZ TIL Ravens can speak better than parrots, enjoy playing in the snow, make their own toys, and do weird things with ants
R7Ml1 TIL on the Lewis and Clark expedition in order to speak to a indian tribe they spoke English to a man who knew French that spoke to a man who knew French and Hidatsa so he told his wife Sacagawea who knew Hidatsa and Shoshone then she would tell the tribes slave who knew Shoshone and Salishan.
b6kZQ TIL: in the English language the colour orange was called yellow red before the fruit became common in the 1500s
9w8O7 TIL: Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995.
pBBQ TIL there is a play by Samuel Beckett called “Play”, that has the stage direction ‘repeat play’ at the end of the script, meaning that the play is theoretically never-ending