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TIL the longest lasting bubble lasted for 465 days

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wLw76 TIL the “Quick Stop” convience store featured in the movie ‘Clerks’ is a real convience store in New Jersey that Kevin Smith worked at while making the film.
BgoL TIL that sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s are estimated to have killed over 500,000 children. When confronted with this statistic, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright remarked that this cost was “worth it” to promote regime change
Y1wr TIL Teddy Roosevelt Jr (son of President Theodore Roosevelt) was the oldest man to invade the beaches of Normandy, the only man to invade Normandy with his son (Cpt. Quentin Roosevelt II on Omaha Beach), and he was the only general to lead his troops (on Omaha beach with only a cane and a pistol)
YA4P TIL that Mario Andretti once refused to drive a racing car when he discovered that the Church of Scientology was one of its sponsors.
XEvPk TIL: Supernova Stars observations have been used to derive a mean rate of supernova per century. The total Galactic Supernova rate is found to be 3 ± 1 per century.