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TIL in 2005 Starbucks spent more on health insurance for its employees than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee.

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wLQmM TIL that one of the animators from Snow White and The Seven Dwarves (1937), Disney’s first animated feature film, is still alive today and was 8 years old during the 1918 Flu.
DalY TIL that the japanese didn’t just have suicide pilots but they had suicide submarine captains that would guide torpedoes into allied ships.
x6jgb TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt presented a 14 gram lunar rock sample sealed in a clear container the size of a pickle jar to the White House in 2018 to mark Space Policy Directive 1, which directs NASA to return humans to the moon
l76K TIL during a college football game in 1951, a white Oklahoma A&M player continually assaulted a black player from Drake named Johnny Bright. Bright was knocked unconscious 3 times and suffered a broken jaw, but still managed to throw a 61-yard touchdown pass before having to leave the game.
9Ybrm TIL in order to get their muscle and pony cars into a lower drag racing class, several manufacturers stated a lower horsepower rating than the real one. For example, Ford stated a 335 HP rating for the 428 Cobra Jet Mustang, while the actual one was about 410 HP.