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TIL Al Capone earned $105m per year in the Prohibition era from alcohol and rackets. This today would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.

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QNBv9 TIL a man fooled the computers at Columbia House Music Club & BMG Music Service by using 1,630 aliases to buy CDs at rates offered only to first-time buyers. Over four years, he bought 22,260 CDs for about $2.50 each. Operating as "CDs for Less", he then sold the CDs at flea markets for $10 a piece.
6vv7 TIL that in 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived to London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.
XeBX TIL there are officially 65,486 Jedi in Australia
DQGvp TIL that atomic clocks in GPS satellites keep the slightly faster passage of time in space synchronized with clocks on Earth
9wWRp TIL that Adobe Flash is discontinued everywhere - except for in China, where it is still used