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TIL of Alfred Peet, a Dutch immigrant who came to the US in 1955 and started the coffee chain. Three of Peet's workers were inspired by his business and started Starbucks, even using Peet's coffee in the beginning for their beans.

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VMXeB TIL in the 13th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II took two infants, raised them apart only to be suckled by nurses and not to be communicated with in attempt to see what the natural language of humans was (Hebrew or the language of their parents). However, the children died of neglect.
EgP47 TIL there's a fishing line strung between electrical poles that travels continuously around the entire perimeter of manhattan
OG6bX TIL Atum/Atem/Atoum/Tem (to complete or to finish) in Egyptian mythology created the sibling deity couple Shu (peace, lions, air and wind) and Tefnut (moisture, moist air, dew, rain) through various means: spitting them out of his mouth, masturbation or "made union with his shadow"
WkLwN TIL that the chemical chlorine trifluoride, is so flammable it can set virtually anything on fire. In the 1950's, a 1 TON spill of this chemical burned through a foot of concrete, another 3 feet of sand and gravel beneath that, with a side of deadly clouds of corrosive hydrofluoric acid gas.
xJr7 TIL Most Americans Believe Crime in U.S. Is Worsening, Despite a sharp decline since the mid-1990s