TIL Costco sold $100M in gold bars in 3 months
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Submitted October 13, 2024 at 05:43PM by Mysterious_Lab_5611
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CNBC
Costco sold more than $100 million in gold bars last quarter
The 1-ounce bars typically sell out within a few hours after they are loaded onto Costco's website. Customers are limited to two bars per Costco membership.
TIL that "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears was heard by Simon Cowell who knew it would be a hit. He offered the writer, Max Martin an Aston Martin if he would give the song to his boy band, Five. Five initially began writing verses; however, Martin had promised the song to Britney.
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Submitted October 13, 2024 at 09:54PM by Hassaan18
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Five (group)
British boy band
TIL Julius Schmid arrived in NYC as a penniless, partially paralyzed German immigrant. He got a job at a sausage maker where he started selling the leftover animal intestines as condoms. He grew this into a multi-million dollar business eventually being named "the undisputed king of condoms".
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Submitted October 13, 2024 at 11:25PM by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL Mickey Mantle, Hall of Fame CF, tore his ACL in his rookie year during the 1951 World Series. He went on to play the rest of his 18-year career on a torn ACL.
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Submitted October 13, 2024 at 10:45PM by beanie_mac
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Mickey Mantle
American baseball player
TIL The G.I. Piano (a.k.a. Victory Vertical) was a piano made by Steinway for the US military. Meant to be used in all kinds of theaters, it was designed to be small enough to be carried on a ship or parachuted from a plane and to be able to cope with the humidity of the South Pacific.
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Submitted October 13, 2024 at 11:44PM by oyiyo
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Victory Vertical
World War II piano manufactured by Steinway & Sons
TIL The real color of the Sun is white not yellow.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 07:04AM by EnvironmentalGap4185
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Sun
star at the centre of the Solar System
TIL that the act of throwing someone out of a window is called "Defenestration".
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 05:43AM by LeviTheRelentless
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Defenestration
the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
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TIL: The Holy Prepuce or Foreskin was an ancient relic dating back to the 800s when Charlemagne claimed to receive it from an angel. It was looted in the Sack of Rome. In 2013, documentary, "The Quest for the Holy Foreskin" was broadcasted by National Geographic.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 04:48AM by Flares117
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Holy Prepuce
relic of the foreskin of Jesus Christ
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Til in 2000, a convicted murderer on death row's execution was denied because he was "too fat to hang"
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 10:23AM by MrSilk2042
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Prisoner once found too fat to hang dies at 51
Mitchell Rupe, a former death row inmate once found too fat to hang, died at the Washington State Penitentiary on Tuesday following a long illness, a prison spokeswoman said. He was 51.
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TIL in 2007, Hamburg Mannheimer International (HMI), now part of Munich Re, held a party in Budapest with 20 prostitutes to reward 100 of its best salesmen
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 02:36PM by Johannes_P
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Spiegel
German Insurer Treated Top Agents to Bathhouse Sex Party
A German insurance company has admitted hosting a decadent sex party at a Budapest bathhouse to reward its best agents for their work. Details of the secretive event include color-coded prostitutes and a ban on photos.
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TIL that the native language of the volcanic island Manam Motu has no words for cardinal directions (North, East, West, South). Instead, it uses polar coördinates—with words meaning “towards the volcano”, ”towards the sea”, “clockwise around the volcano”, and “counterclockwise around the volcano”.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 02:23PM by kmatt17
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Manam language
Manam is a Kairiru–Manam language spoken mainly on the volcanic Manam Island, northeast of New Guinea.
TIL during the rescue of Maersk Alabama Captain Phillips from Somali pirates the $30,000 in cash they obtained from the ship went missing, 2 Seal team six members were investigated but never charged. The money was never recovered
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 04:04PM by xejeezy
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Maersk Alabama hijacking
The Maersk Alabama hijacking began on 8 April 2009, when four pirates in the Somali Basin seized the Danish/U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama at a distance of 240 nautical miles (440 km; 280 mi) southeast of Eyl, Somalia. The siege ended after a rescue effort…
TIL that Raytheon (now RTX), military industry giant, started as a company producing appliances. From microwave ovens to missile systems.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 12:17PM by tomekzak
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Raytheon
defunct American industrial corporation (1922–2020)
TIL: Olive Garden stopped salting its pasta water because the salt voided warranties on its pots
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 05:29PM by fmoss
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The Takeout
Olive Garden Should Be Locked Up For This Culinary Crime - The Takeout
Olive Garden often breaks the rules when it comes to Italian cooking, but there's one crime in particular the chain does that should make the chain serve time.
TIL about Strongheart, a male German shepherd who was one of the earliest canine movie stars. Originally trained as a police dog, Strongheart served in the German Red Cross during World War I. Tragically he was burnt in an accident with a hot studio light, dying at age 11 on June 24, 1929.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 02:00PM by SnarkySheep
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Strongheart
dog actor
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TIL local Cretan resistance in WWII was so great that civilians would attack Axis paratroopers as they were landing with knives, axes, scythes and even their bare hands.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 06:28PM by CompetitiveNovel8990
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Cretan resistance
anti-fascist resistance movement in Greece during World War II
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TIL about the Tiger Keelback snake, one of the very few poisonous-venomous snakes in the World
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 05:29PM by ssf_0814
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Tiger Keelback (Rhabdophis tigrinus)
Rhabdophis tigrinus is a venomous colubrid snake found in East and Southeast Asia. Many sources, though not ITIS, recognize one subspecies, Rhabdophis tigrinus formosanus of Taiwan. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdophis_tigrinus…
TIL Over 60 percent of tooth decay involves genetic factors.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 08:59PM by Away-Lynx8702
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Genetic Susceptibility to Dental Caries Differs between the Sexes: A Family-based Study
Many of the factors affecting susceptibility to dental caries are likely influenced by genetics. In fact, genetics accounts for up to 65% of inter-individual variation in dental caries experience. Sex differences in dental caries experience has been widely…
TIL that the founder of “Famous Amos cookies”, Wally Amos, was also the first African American talent agent at the William Morris Agency. He would send prospective clients a batch of cookies and an invitation to talk. This would lead to his clients giving him a loan to create Famous Amos cookies.
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 09:47PM by JackThaBongRipper
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Wally Amos
American television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1936–2024)
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TIL a computer programme called ePuzzler was developed in Germany to automatically piece together the documents the Stasi tried to shred after the fall of the Berlin wall based on torn edge characteristics, font and colour
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 10:31PM by papamot
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Stasi-Schnipselmaschine
Computerprogramm zur Wiederherstellung von "Stasi Schnipseln"
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TIL that the Panopticon prison design used centrally positioned guards to create the illusion of constant surveillance, ensuring low-cost control over inmates behavior
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Submitted October 14, 2024 at 09:41PM by ddrac
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Panopticon
type of prison architecture imagined by the Bentham brothers