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TIL One company owns or holds a majority stake in Keurig Green Mountain, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Caribou Coffee Company, Eistein Bagels, Espresso House, Mighty Leaf Tea, Stumptown Coffee, and Bruegger's Bagels

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R5xj1 TIL that the current world record holder for men's marathon died at age 24.
xVvMB TIL There is a Space Screwdriver has been circling low Earth orbit at up to 21,600 miles per hour for the last 35 years.
VBQL0 TIL Serge Voronoff was a surgeon who gained fame for his practice of xenotransplantation of monkey testicle tissues onto the testicles of men as anti-aging therapy while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s.
e0Ddk TIL Everyone on Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005) passed out due to hypoxia. A flight attendant woke up and tried to control plane but failed. The autopilot kept the plane fly nearly 3hrs until the fuel ran out and crash, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. This known as “Ghost Flight”
BjAb TIL: That Tora Bora, a Taliban cave complex in Afghanistan was a CIA financed complex build for the Mujahideen during the cold war.