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TIL that Starbucks was a dismal failure in Australia…

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kOJj1 TIL that there are still forgotten caches of incendiary grenades buried around Britain, for use by the Home Guard during WWII.
kJVPB TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.
6Yyw TIL that IGN gave the movie “This is Spinal Tap” an 11.
dnpB TIL That spanking children makes them more defiant and more likely to develop mental issues later in life. The study in question involved 160,000 children over 50 years
8aJoX TIL of Otto Skorzeny, an SS commando who among other feats rescued Mussolini from a mountaintop prison, spread chaos undercover in American uniform and was later recruited by the Mossad