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TIL the largest known credit card purchase was $170 million on an AmEx Black Card. The purchaser and his family could fly first class for life with the points alone.

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jArM TIL Ore trains in Sweden traveling down to the coast generate five times the amount of electricity they use, powering nearby towns and the return trip for other trains.
QNKGp TIL about Lisa Nowak: an astronaut mother of 3, who drove 900 miles in adult diapers to kidnap the other woman in a bizarre space love triangle.
4X8xJ TIL Alec Guinness agreed to appear in Star Wars only after he negotiated a deal that doubled his initial salary offer, guaranteed he wouldn’t have to do any publicity for the film, and that he would be awarded 2.25% of all gross royalties paid to George Lucas
nWN7G TIL that 97% of the United States is rural.
BgaW TIL that researchers once did an fMRI study showing that a dead salmon demonstrated brain activity when shown a series of photographs. It was done to point out methodological flaws in fMRI research.