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TIL that on Friday, October 13, 2084, there will be a full moon

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Oob4a TIL the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don't write names on the cups.
dDLYE TIL that in 1982, an artist and her assistants grew, cared for, and harvested an entire wheatfield in the middle of New York City on top of the landfill created by the construction of The World Trade Center, a piece of land worth 4.5 billion dollars at the time.
eWEJ TIL Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”
OxPL TIL that PayPerView events can cost bars and restaurants thousands of dollars to show them, and PayPerView sends spies out to make sure non-paying establishments aren’t showing them and sues those that are caught.
KOWZR TIL the USA spent $14mill researching marine mammals as weapons in 2017 (e.g. dolphins and sea lions)