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TIL Costco makes 75% of its Money through it's Subscription Service and only has 11% Gross Margins compared to Walmart's 24%.

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PRBn TIL the city of Whynot, North Carolina has it’s name because as residents were arguing over a name for the city, some bloke stood up and said “Why not name the town Why Not and let’s go home?” And so they did.
LQXyp TIL about Grey Owl. A famous indigenous Canadian conservationist during the 1930s. When he died, it was revealed that he wasn't actually First Nations at all - instead he was a British immigrant that was putting on an act.
rmk4 TIL the phrase ‘laughing your head off’ originates from a public execution in 18th century England, when an audience platform next to the scaffold collapsed and killed twenty onlookers, to the amusement of the man about to have his head cut off.
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m1nQO TIL in 2018 a helicopter for sightseers of NYC crashed into the East River. All 5 passengers drowned because they were trapped by their supplemental harnesses, but the pilot escaped