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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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7rKDr TIL Botox is derived from botulism. “Sausage poison” is what Justinus Kerner called the pathogen in the 1820s; he had observed the paralytic effects after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people, six died. Decades later, named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.
0dkLv TIL that a condor's wing feathers are over two feet long. Nearly as long as a tennis racket.
QNbpM TIL peanut allergies plummet by 77% if they're added to babies' diets at 4-6 months of age
loBLG TIL the Vietnam Memorial was designed by a 21 year old architecture student for a class project. She got a B+ despite winning the national competition.
ADOBd TIL Doritos were created at Disneyland to recycle old tortillas that had been discarded.