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TIL that baristas at the CIA Starbucks do not write down customers names on their cups and there are no frequent-customer award cards

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oRppR TIL of the Malaysian version of rock paper scissors called One Two Som which uses Rock, Water and Bird. Water is a stretched out palm (same as paper), but a Bird is represented by all five finger tips held together to form a bird beak. Rock kills Bird, Bird drinks Water, and Water sinks Rock.
Me4wa TIL that in WW2, destroyer crews loved to rescue downed pilots, because the reward for returning them to their carrier was 10 gallons (38 liters) of ice cream.
6ryY TIL in 1996, as a April Fool’s Day prank, the Taco Bell Corporation took out a full-page ad that appeared in six major newspapers saying that it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. The National Historic Park in Philadelphia received hundreds of outraged calls.
9wZ9m TIL: Rupaul owns 60,000 acres in Wyoming that he leases to oil companies for fracking
jNK4v TIL Shrunken heads are made using only the (skin) off the head. Not the skull at all. They basically take the SKIN off the head and wrap it around a piece of wood, rock etc to keep the shape of the head.