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TIL Michael Jordan makes hundreds of millions of dollars per year in passive income as a result of his deal with Nike

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7rlxr TIL Costco loses $30-40 million a year on their $5 rotisserie chickens because they refuse to raise the price
W7Qk8 TIL a 2016 study by the University of Michigan found that pizza was the most addictive food, followed by chocolate and potato chips. The least addictive foods were cucumbers, carrots, and beans which were even less addictive than water.
DRAj TIL Brian May, the guitarist from queen, has a PhD in astrophysics and has co-authored 3 research papers
KOnQ6 TIL of the United States Army Pigeon Service whose pigeons were trained for communication and reconnaissance purposes during WWII. During the war, the force consisted of 54,000 war pigeons and over 90% of their messages were received successfully (with some earning medals for saving Allied lives).
5Vm9 TIL that a cartoonist confronted a burglar running through his house. He called the police and took pen to paper to produce a caricature of the burglar. The police immediately recognised the burglar from the drawing and he was soon apprehended.