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TIL The founder and majority stakeholder of Starbucks was responsible for the dissolution of the Seattle Supersonics NBA franchise.

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rNmgW TIL a population bottleneck occurred in human evolution about 70,000 years ago, and one theory for why this occurred is a supervolcano eruption in Indonesia. It caused a volcanic winter, which resulted in a drop of the global mean surface temperature by 3–5 °C.
R71k9 TIL that Ava Gardner, while married to Frank Sinatra, became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies due to "MGM [having] all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies."
BrRpx TIL China has the world's biggest deep sea fishing fleet that strip mines the world's oceans. The Chinese government heavily subsidises the fleet. China accounts for a third of world consumption. The seas around China have virtually no fish left but the commercial fishing fleet is still huge.
6E5NY TIL In 1982, a lady by the name of Deborah Mathers sued Dort Elementary School because her 9-year-old son Marshall was bullied and beaten so severely that he suffered several injuries, including a cerebral concussion, repetitive loss of vision and hearing, and other such ailments.
Z8BAB TIL that the Beatles’ final concert for a paying audience wasn't sold out, leaving over 15,000 unsold seats, largely because no one realized it would be their last concert appearance.