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TIL Costco sold $100M in gold bars in 3 months

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69XPw TIL that after John III Sobieski of Poland-Lithuania defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Kangxi Emperor of Qing China wrote an eulogy praising the Polish king. John III Sobieski later sent a portrait of himself to Kangxi.
p84LG TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.
A6w7 TIL In 1944, the Bishop and Mayor of Zakynthos were ordered at gunpoint to list the names of all the island’s Jews. They turned in a list with just their names on it, while the island’s population hid the Jews. All 275 Jews survived the war.
4XyBR TIL In Paraguay the Guaraní language is more widely spoken than Spanish (52% of the rural population only speaks it), making the country a linguistic anomaly in Latin America
vlyx TIL it is possible to write computer code entirely using white space, in the style of a Shakespeare play, or as an image.