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TIL Starbucks is donating 100% of their leftover prepared meals to charity. They’ve been donating pastries since 2010, but refrigerated vans will now allow each of the 7,600 stores to distribute all the food that remains unsold at the end of the day while keeping it safe to eat

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mxNxE TIL that Madagascar has a larger population than Australia by almost a million people. Madagascar has a population of 25,570,900 while Australia has 24,598,930.
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