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TIL of a man who legally changed his name to "Winter" in 2006, has played over 7,000 tournament games of Scrabbles, and has visited over 15,000 Starbucks locations, with the dream of visiting every Starbucks in the world.

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wkVM TIL it is estimated that at any given time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk. That means about 50 million people are drunk right now.
5QKR TIL The Departed is the movie with the most uses of the word “fuck” and its derivatives (237) to win the Best Picture Oscar.
R7wlQ TIL Nigeria still has 160,000 annual deaths due to AIDS, while in Swaziland more than 1 in 4 adults has it.
5VVKn TIL the color orange was named after the fruit orange, and not vice versa. Prior to its naming, it was referred to as yellow-red (ġeolurēad).
N7Zo1 TIL The Star Wars (1977) attack run scene was heavily influenced by the Dam Busters (1955) bombing run (based on the true story of a low flying bombing run, deep in Axis territory, amidst enemy fire, with a very narrow target window to hit a weak point in enourmous enemy targets. Sound familiar?).