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TIL that food companies learned from the 1990 Perrier Water debacle how not to do a recall after discovering product contamination.

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xpdk TIL of Laurence Peter, author of the Peter Principle, which states: “… in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent…”
vPRJB Today I learned Jim Carrey condemned the violence in his own movie Kick-Ass 2.
kkwB TIL traces of nicotine and cocaine were found in Egyptian mummies. This finding is almost unbelievable considering nicotine and cocaine are indigenous to the Americas.
v17jB TIL about the Australian bird the Bassian Thrush that farts to disturb worms while hunting.
bV40 TIL that Boeing plane models are always 7X7 not because of the Lucky number 7 but because the 700 division was in charge of transport aircraft after WWII. They started with 707 and kept the pattern from there.