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TIL Starbucks spends more on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.

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v1OaK TIL the cost of an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron is $20,000.
kOMNd TIL Charles Darwin wrote: "The mule always appears to me a most surprising animal. That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection, powers of muscular endurance, and length of life, than either of its parents, seems to indicate that art has here outdone nature."
gMQe4 TIL I am a superhuman because I don't molest kids.
5YBRR TIL that the infamous RMS Titanic had a near-identical sister ship called Olympic, nicknamed "Old Reliable", that was re-commissioned in WWI as a troop transport ship and was notable for having carried over 200,000 troops during the war and sinking a German u-boat by ramming into it head-on
grxbX TIL of the 10 tallest people ever recorded, the oldest died at the age of 56.