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TIL that Starbucks has beer flavored coffee in Florida and Ohio

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Egyox TIL The inspiration for the creation of YouTube (according to co-founder Jawed Karim, the guy in "Me at the zoo") was that it was difficult to find videos online of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime flash.
yEnw TIL A soldier once returned from deployment to find his wife had died and his young children had starved to death.
xyZD TIL About a pilot, who, upon ejecting from his damaged fighter, got stuck in a cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) cloud for over 30mins, caught in updrafts, pelted by hailstones, and almost drowned.
Lo9V TIL when the head of The Piratebay, Peter Sunde, was arrested he asked to phone his girlfriend so she could lock the doors of his house before going with the policeman. The policeman said yes. Instead, he pushed a button on an app that immediately encrypted all servers of The Piratebay.
vE1L TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters