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

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e0vYb TIL that in 1968 the french author and résistance hero Romain Gary challenged Clint Eastwood to a duel after he learned that Eastwood had an affair with his wife, the actress Jean Seberg
N0ob TIL Harvard prof. Dr. Edward Clarke asserted that women should not be allowed to attend college. If young women studied too much, they would divert blood away from the uterus to the brain, rendering themselves “irritable and infertile.”
W7GAN TIL The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD
leOA TIL Canada is the #1 foreign oil provider to the U.S.
4krVR TIL that cats can have hypersomnia disorders (narcolepsy, cataplexy) just as humans do. It's harder to diagnose due to cats usual 16-20hrs/day sleep cycle, and it's as rare as in humans, but did you ever see your cat falling asleep in a middle of something?