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TIL Amazon’s daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.

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