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TIL that Costco loses $30 to $40 million per year selling $4.99 rotisserie chickens. It is a loss leader, which draws customers who will hopefully purchase other items.

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yVdRJ TIL of The Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster where 100’s of workers died from silicosis after being forced to mine silica without the proper protective equipment. It was the deadliest industrial incident in US history. The site was owned by Union Carbide Corp.
AVan TIL Ultimate sci-fi fan and literary agent Forest J Ackerman kept every story ever submitted to him. He once showed up at a Stephen King book signing with a manuscript King had written when he was 11.
XlPQ TIL Ravens, Bees, Ants and Humans are the only animals capable of linguistic displacement- the ability to communicate about objects or events that are distant in space or time
MDGb TIL the most expensive drug in the world is called Glybera and costs 1.6 million USD per treatment!
78GXP TIL Tattooed individuals were experimentally found to be more short-sighted and impulsive than the non-tattooed