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

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neDW TIL that Congress has a lower approval rating than Hugo Chavez, the US going Communist, Paris Hilton, the BP Oil Spill, Banks, and Nixion During Watergate
P1gOL TIL the T.V. show "The Simpsons" was originally meant to be set in Springfield, Oregon. The show's creator Matt Groening decided he liked the idea of a town that is ambiguous about its state, so he didn't keep that aspect of the lore.
E1D0o TIL A grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested after he was caught being blackballed by cross-dressing black male prostitute in the backseat of a car
9Ya7B TIL that JFK wore a rigid back brace due to his poor health and terrible back which left him sitting upright in the limo after being initially shot by Oswald. Thereby, giving Oswald a clear second shot.
eaBb TIL Former President, President for Life and then Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic ate the flesh of his political enemies.