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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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8dxZ TIL in the 1930s a selling point of the major toilet paper manufacturers at the time was that their product was “splinter free.”
oRZ8 TIL In 2010, The Texas Board of Education removed founding father, Thomas Jefferson, from the state social studies curriculum because of his beliefs in deism and replaced him with the religious right icon John Calvin.
5Ym9k TIL 100% orange juice that you buy in the grocery store is highly processed and up to a year old before it’s purchased by the consumer
E1Xnd TIL in the original Star Wars Trilogy, despite being told by Luke to 'stay on the ship', R2D2 never follows his commands. Later, in the prequel trilogy, the last thing Anakin says to R2D2 was to stay on the ship, which he does. Never seeing Anakin again.
4kpPa TIL there is pharmaceutical treatment for alcoholism