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

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7JMx TIL that Aaron Bruno, lead singer of AWOLNATION, wrote and recorded “Sail” in two hours, in one take. The sound engineer felt it needed a redo because of some distortion. Bruno replied “Who cares? No one’s gonna care about this song anyway.”
5YWZP TIL 500 members of French 17th of infantery regiment mutinied during the 1907 revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers, and joined the demonstrators. As a retaliation: during WW1 the regiment was harshly sent to multiple death traps with no support, before being dissolved in 1921.
kJZ6e TIL in 1948 Idaho Fish and Game attached parachutes to 76 beavers and dropped them out of a plane into the backcountry. All but one beaver survived the drop and they created a beaver colony in the Chamberlain Basin.
VBNxZ TIL a teenage Greek girl gained the romantic affection of the much older Ali Pasha of Janina, an Ottoman ruler, and successfully advocated for Orthodox Christian people
5por TIL of Alexandra Scott who started a lemonade stand to raise money for children with cancer. Before passing away at the age 8 she successfully raised over $1 million towards cancer research. Her foundation sponsors a national fundraising weekend every June called Lemonade Days.