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

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OavL TIL that ‘Pudding Guy’ David Phillips accumulated 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles in 30 days by finding a loophole in a Healthy Choice Foods company promotion.
oRWPR TIL Ernest Hemingway sold the book "To Have and Have Not" rights to the Hughes Tool Company,Howard Hawks bought the book rights,then sold them to Warner Bros.Hawks made ten times more money selling the rights than Hemingway did.After hearing it,Hemingway refused to speak to Hawks for "three months".
yQdp TIL that the reason one is 1, two is 2, three is 3, etc. is because the ancient Arabic versions of 0-9 numbers had the corresponding number of angles in their symbols. (1 has one angle, 2 has two, and so on)
rRge4 TIL in 2014 the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, banned lip syncing stating “One can see on tv old voiceless singers lip-synching their old songs. Don’t kill talent... create our new culture.” He also banned playing recorded music at all public events, on television and at weddings.
JYE64 TIL we don't know what Robert Hooke looked like because a pissed off Sir Isaac Newton "lost" Hooke's portrait after he died.