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TIL that the former owner Starbucks Howard Schultz was once an employee who left the company after his coffee shop idea was turned down, and later bought it for $3.8 million and turned it into the world’s biggest coffee retailer.

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l8v1 TIL a British bloke has traveled to every country and territory on earth without taking a single flight.
Xra8 TIL in ancient Greek mythology, Zeus decided to wipe out mankind by flooding the Earth. The world was repopulated by a man and woman who survived the flood by building an ark.
69E1W TIL I learned that orgasms lead to the increase of endocannabinoid, explaining why people get hungry after sex/masturbation. This is the same system that gets triggered when one smokes cannabis and get the munchies.
rLx0 TIL in 2011 a Gurkha single-handedly held off 12 Taliban as they attacked his base. Alone on the roof, he fought ‘an onslaught of rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s’. He fired over 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine. After his gun failed, he threw his tripod to fend a man off.
a8JeL TIL that capuchin monkeys rub their own urine onto their body and hands to signal their attractiveness and availability to potential mates