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

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R704l TIL Bayer sold blood meds contaminated with HIV. Their lab misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated meds in Asia and Latin America. As a consequence, people who used them developed AIDS.
x6bjb TIL In 1997, five million Lego pieces fell off a cargo ship along the coasts of England. Ironically, many of these pieces were themed around sea creatures, this is the worst toy-related environmental disaster of all time, and beachcombers still uncover the shipwrecked plastic treasures today.
xVZ81 TIL that US Presidential candidates get intelligence briefings. Harry Truman began this practice in 1952 as a reaction to his own experience at the beginning of his Presidency - he knew next to nothing about the U.S.’s intelligence apparatus, including the Manhattan Project.
nWo49 TIL that the two earliest versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch were created with egg tempera and crayon on cardboard. These editions are now in the Oslo National Gallery and the Munch Museum.
woNR7 TIL Caterpillar Inc. (the machinery company) once sued a coffee shop in Santa Cruz, California called Cat and Cloud Coffee over their use of the word "CAT".