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TIL that Bad Company, who had an album named Bad Company and a hit song named Bad Company named their group after a movie named Bad Company

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xVLd1 TIL Costco’s $6,000 Doomsday Food Kit Only Gets Your Family Through Year One of the Apocalypse. The kit is delivered as two pallets of boxes that together weigh 1,800 pounds. To keep neighbors in the dark, Costco promises everything is “packaged discreetly.” The some products expire in 30 years.
4XwMR TIL that Canadian Thanksgiving predates American Thanksgiving by 43 years
dD4aQ TIL that the Nile River is the longest river in the world (~6,850km) and encompasses the third-largest drainage area (~3.4M sq km), but has only the 98th largest average discharge volume (~2,830 cu m/s)
JYrLk TIL about Aeroflot Flight 3352, a crash that happened as a result of a flight controller falling asleep and not informing a landing aircraft that the runway was occupied with maintanance personnel.
YpvQd TIL that Bella Hadid has the most scientifically beautiful face in the world according to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi. She is followed closely by Beyoncé and Amber Heard.