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TIL that early one morning in 2014 a Starbucks drive-thru customer decided to pay for the next customer’s order, which ignited an 11 hour long pay-it-forward chain that lasted from 7 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. later that evening when customer No. 379 declined to participate.

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x6pB7 TIL The cancelation of the US-Mexico Bracero Program indirectly lead to tasteless supermarket tomatoes
4XL0o TIL in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered to send the US world-class medical support but America rejected their help due to relations with the regime. Said one frustrated Cuban doctor: “This is not political. This is a humanitarian emergency. People are dying and they need our help.”
kx5E TIL that patients with Bipolar disorder, even “rapid cycling” are affected by one episode for weeks/months at a time. Therefore, someone who is “manic” in the morning and “depressed” in the evening is not Bipolar.
5Vgl9 TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed.
QJ1RM TIL that Los Angeles County has a bigger population (10.04 million) than 40 US states. (9.986 million or less)