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TIL that Starbucks was a dismal failure in Australia…

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R59pw TIL the world’s quietest room is in Microsoft’s headquarters.
nvxG TIL hemp was banned in the 1930’s (U.S.) due to it being competitive with, at the time, newly founded synthetics fibre and plastic industries.
16kM7 TIL Ratan Tata’s illustrious life
5ep9 TIL that “human intelligence” may have been caused completely by a random mutation, in which the jawbones of our ape ancestors became slightly shorter, allowing their brains to grow bigger in circumference
R58g7 TIL that it's not just the fur of Tigers which is striped, their skin is too.