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In 2017, a famed green jacket from the Augusta National Golf Club was purchased for $5 at a Toronto thrift shop, then sold at auction for $139k

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Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis was the first song since 1994 to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.

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1. While filming The Wizard of Oz, the actor playing the Wizard noticed the label “L Frank Baum” in a ragged coat that had been purchased at a thrift shop for his role. The coat had been sewn for the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and was presented to his widow upon the films completion.

2. Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver who purchased a painting from a thrift shop for $5, only to find out that it may be a Jackson Pollock, turned down an offer of US $9 million from a Saudi Arabian buyer.

3. The vocalist in the chorus of Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" is now a QA engineer at software company Tableau.

4. A Teri Horton, a bargain hunter, bought a $5 painting at a thrift shop. The painting was an original Jackson Pollock and is worth $50 Million.

5. There is a macklemore - thrift shop remix for med students to memorize the citric acid cycle

6. Wanz, or the 'deep voice' in the song 'Thrift Shop' was a full-time software engineer prior to its release. In 2015 he again took up a full-time job as a quality-assurance engineer at a software company.

7. Someone made an electro remix of a swing cover of Thrift Shop. In doing so, they created a modern version of an old-timey version of a modern song about wearing old-timey clothes to modern public gatherings.

8. One of the costumes for The Wizard of Oz was bought from a thrift shop. Actor Frank Morgan turned out its pocket and found the name tag for its previous owner - L. Frank Baum, the author of the original book.

9. Macklemore's hit song "Thrift Shop" was copied from three teenagers who wrote a similar song a year earlier.

10. The 60 year old, 14m tall statue of the Virgin Mary in Paraparaumu NZ used to have the country's largest thrift shop at it's base (and sadly wasn't called 'Mary Saves')