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TIL the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don't write names on the cups.

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0dWQM TIL Old typewriters have no exclamation point! They typed an apostrophe ' over a period .
p8e9N TIL the reason that Johnny Cash flipped the bird to the camera in the iconic photo was to send a message to the prison warden. The photographer Jim Marshall had asked Johnny to express what he thought of the prison authorities.
E1Kmx TIL Werner Herzog once jumped into a cactus, to cheer up an actor who was accidentally run over and set on fire while working on his film
EeyP TIL there is a town in Australia where the entire town (200+ people) live underground in abandoned mines. Residents here have electricity and plumbing, and have been known to find vast amounts of Opal when renovating.
KOJo4 TIL in 1994 Alan Jackson protested having to play a pre-recorded version of gone country at the ACM awards by having his drummer "play" without using drumsticks.