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TIL Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.

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PYPRZ TIL the split gill mushroom has over 23,328 distinct sexes, but they can't all successfully mate with one another. Each sex can only be fertile with 22,960 other sexes.
QNnZE TIL of An open air school in 1957, Netherlands. ⁣In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe. Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.
xVKwb TIL during the Civil War a Maine woman was captured at sea by Confederate pirates but escaped by getting them blackout drunk and then convincing their slave crew to "make them prisoners" and sail with her to freedom.
NXglM TIL under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war are required to be paid, depending on what their rank is respectively, either 8, 12, 50, 60, or 75 Swiss Francs a month by the Detaining Power.
rRvXM TIL in 2005, when Steve Jobs began planning the iPhone, he had a choice to either shrink the Mac or enlarge the iPod. Jobs pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams against each other in an internal competition.