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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.

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xVGx7 TIL the average man gets bored after just 26 minutes of shopping while the average woman gets bored after two hours.
9eLM TIL that a New York woman was hospitalized after a bit of a dentists drill lodged near her eye. The dentist was dancing to “Car Wash” at the time. The patient later sued the dentist for $600k.
pd04 TIL in 1986 a Kansas sheriff rented a camera and VCR from his local video store, filming a 90 minute sex tape with his wife. Upon returning the equipment, he inadvertently left the tape inside the VCR. Soon enough, his whole town had watched and passed around copies of “The Sheriff Rides Again”.
wL5V8 TIL of Zipf's Law. In almost every language, the most common word will occur 2x as often as the second most common word, 3x as often as the third most common word, and so on.
8eNOK TIL the Soviet Union had a famous clown imitator of Charlie Chaplin named Karandash.