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TIL that Starbucks holds almost $2 billion in the form of money people keep in the app or gift cards; they make 100s of millions of dollars per year off of customers not buying coffee

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Q6j9 TIL that Mythbuster’s Jamie Hyneman ran away from home at age 14 and then hitchhiked all over the United States. Now he is a certified diver,wilderness survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and chef.
Dwwr TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
x69a0 TIL that chicken nuggets were originally known as "Chicken Crispies" by Robert C. Baker, the food scientist that invented them.
rN4Ax TIL A man serving life in prison for the murder of his mother became the second highest-rated chess player in the US by obtaining USCF membership for other inmates and playing tournaments against them.
YpbM7 TIL that after the introduction of Chlorpromazine, the first ever antipsychotic, psychiatric hospitalization went down from 560,000 to 193,000 twenty years later.