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TIL in 2009 the US mint offered free delivery on purchases of the new $1 coins, and many people exploited this to earn thousands of “free” airline miles buy using their credit cards to buy the coins, then using the coins to pay the credit card

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LKj0 TIL Eminem bought Elton John 2 diamond cock rings for his civil partnership
1aWJr Summit, a supercomputer built in the United States for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is taking the lead from China for the title of world’s speediest computer.
DLjP TIL after discovering his hotel alias, Michael Jackson used to prank call Russell Crowe and say things like “‘Is Mr. Wall there? Is Mrs. Wall there? Are there any Walls there? Then what’s holding the roof up?”
rRkbW TIL that North Korea trained some members of the Official IRA and the men posed as members of the Maltese Communist Party
l5GN TIL that during nuclear testing in Los Alamos in the ‘50s, an underground test shot a 2-ton steel manhole cover into the atmosphere at 41 miles/second. It was never found.