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TIL about "breakage" - money left on gift cards indefinitely, which the issuers eventually claim as revenue. In 2021, Starbucks reaped $181million from unused giftcards.

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EeyP TIL there is a town in Australia where the entire town (200+ people) live underground in abandoned mines. Residents here have electricity and plumbing, and have been known to find vast amounts of Opal when renovating.
yQdKa TIL that the residents of Chernobyl had a new city built for them by workers from 8 former Soviet republics. The city has a range of different architectural styles such as pink stoned Armenian buildings and wooden Baltic-style houses. City districts are named after a city from each republic.
47R5 TIL Captain Hazelwood was widely portrayed as as a drunk captain who steered the Exxon Valdez aground in 1989. He was in his berth at the time of the collision, the drug test with his name was mishandled, and a search of the ship only turned up two beer bottles.
0wbLy TIL In 2005 Gosho Aoyama the manga artist for Detective Conan series was married to the voice actor of the protagonist Conan Edogawa, Minami Takayama. She is also the singer pop duo Two Mix & she appeared in files 144-146 of the manga with case title 'The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case'.
j6Zjp TIL: In 1941 The Germans allowed the British RAF to drop a prosthetic leg by parachute to a Luftwaffe base in France. The Germans were very respectful of Captain Douglas Bader, who was captured after bailing from his plane with only one of his two prosthetic legs. One got stuck in his damaged plane.