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TIL that Costco in the UK only allows people of certain professions to become a member

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grLG4 TIL about James Croll, a real life Good Will Hunting, who used his library access while working as a janitor at Andersonian University to teach himself physics and astronomy, and then published a revolutionary theory explaining the negative feedback loop that causes ice ages.
KbE TIL that in the first 10 years of the Tour de France,(1904-1914) many of the cyclists cheated by taking buses and trains instead of cycling the race.
GYRjg TIL of Buffalo Child Long Lance, an American journalist, writer and actor from North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He was a darling of Hollywood cocktail parties until it was discovered that he was part black, a fact that ended his career.
5YgNQ TIL I learned that Sharknado was made with a fake name called “Dark Skies,” to get actors to sign on. After they learned it was Sharknado, they all tried to quit.
ADr74 TIL that the FBI has a rapid deployment Art Crime Team consisting of 20 special agents. Since its conception in 2004, it has recovered over 15,000 items valued at over $800,000,000