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TIL that Starbucks incurred massive losses and failed miserably trying to expand into Australia.

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GbK5 TIL Iranians still use the ancient form of air conditioning called the badgir. It is a tower with vents on top and allows cool air to accelerate down into a building. Zion National Park in Utah has a modern example of this, where temps reach over 100 F, the visitors center stays at cool 73 F.
9wrQB TIL the wheel was first used for making pottery before it was used for transportation.
amYZ TIL that any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size due to gravitational potential energy. In 29 dominoes, the last domino would be as tall as the Empire State Building, irrespective of first domino is so tiny (5 millimeters tall and only 1 millimeter thick).
69gEJ TIL Susan Backlinie the actress who played the 1st shark attack victim in the movie Jaws, wasnt actually injured by the harness as was heavily rumoured to be the reason for her realistic screams in fact it was due to being shocked after intentionally not being warned when she would start to be moved
0D8M TIL that in 2009, before specific whistleblower protection laws, two nurses in TX were fired and charged with unrelated felonies after reporting unsafe medical care from a physician they worked under