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

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0O65 TIL in the 2006 World Cup final: after he was pulling his shirt, Zidane told Materazzi “If you would like my shirt, I will give it to you after the game”. Materazzi replied “I would rather have your whore of a sister”, which resulted in the subsequent headbutt that got Zidane red-carded.
4X1O5 TIL that 42% of games in the Canadian Soccer League in 2015 showed signs of suspicious betting activity.
wdpM TIL that the fifteen year old Steven Spielberg, dressed up ‘in a coat and tie’, sneaked onto the Universal Studios Lot and stuck his name up on the door of an abandoned office. He remained there without being caught for over three months, spending the time observing how the professionals made films.
xLg5 TIL Between 60-70% of the French prison population is Muslim.
E1WQV TIL about "glacier mice": fuzzy green balls of moss that form on top of glaciers and move like a herd of rodents