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TIL Costco sells approximately 60,000,000 rotisserie chickens every year.

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9wwrM TIL of Adnan Khashoggi, a successful Saudi businessman who, among other business, would bring together US arms companies and the Saudi Government, and make a commission on deals. He became so rich he had a fleet of private jets and his lavish lifestyle cost $250,000 a day just to maintain.
Ad0o TIL Stephen King’s fictional town of Castle Rock was inspired by the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, in turn inspired the name of Rob Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film Lord of the Flies (1990).
YrWW TIL that Henri Nestle invented his breast milk substitute to help Europe’s high infant mortality rates. Today, Nestle abuse their market power to get African mothers hooked on their products.
e01Vb TIL The Moon has an atmosphere, although it is so thin that scientists consider it basically nonexistent for practical purposes. The total mass of the lunar atmosphere is about the same as a school bus.
gMlA9 TIL an 18th century American businessman published a book in which he ranted about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. It had no punctuation and had random capitalization. In the 2nd edition, he added an extra page with 13 lines of punctuation marks, stating that readers could put them anywhere.