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TIL that Starbucks has beer flavored coffee in Florida and Ohio

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wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.
rgAM TIL: President James A. Garfield’s killer Charles J. Guiteau bought a revolver with an Ivory grip over a cheaper wooden grip because he thought it would look better as a museum piece after the Assassination.
4kX4N TIL that in the years preceding the French Revolution, the price of bread went from costing about 50% of a laborer's daily wages to about 88% of their income.
pY4OG TIL of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who was the Chicago Mafia’s main man in Los Angeles. Korshak went to his death, without so much as a criminal indictment against him, let alone a conviction.
9YKGM TIL following his death at the Battle of Little Big Horn, the reputation of General George Custer was rehabilitated by his widow, who spent decades promoting his image as as the "gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand".