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eL1b TIL that early one morning in 2014 a Starbucks drive-thru customer decided to pay for the next customer’s order, which ignited an 11 hour long pay-it-forward chain that lasted from 7 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. later that evening when customer No. 379 declined to participate.
5YZP9 TIL the first car to break the 100km/h (60mph) barrier was an electric vehicle in 1899
9YgWX TIL How William Shakespeare’s name is spelled is unknown, even to himself. His contemporaries spelled it more than 80 different ways, including “Shappere” and “Shaxberd”. It turns out, he never used “William Shakespeare” once
X04lj TIL that the first car to achieve a land speed record of 62mph, (100kph), was a Belgian designed electric vehicle in 1899.
Q9ZM TIL that Australians spread margarine or butter on white bread, douse it in sprinkles, call it fairy bread and then eat it as a dessert.