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TIL K-Mart still exists in Australia and New Zealand

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jLjE TIL that Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing is made by Clorox and you can cheaply buy it in 20lb bags of powder that turn into 100 gallons of dressing.
ZPba TIL that “stranger danger” is a myth: Children are twice as likely to be killed by a relative and 20x more likely to be killed by their parents than at the hands of a stranger.
lo407 TIL the small town of Tanner, Alabama has the distinction of being hit by two F5 tornadoes within a 30 minutes timeframe. On the night of April 3, 1974, rescuers in Tanner were busy searching for victims of the first twister when they were surprised by a second which wiped out the rest of the town
KYlwQ TIL that CBS used to run so many rural-themed TV shows that they were mocked as the “Country Broadcasting System.” To attract a more lucrative audience, after the 1970-71 season they enacted the “rural purge,” canceling many popular rural-themed series and long-running variety shows.
0wV8v TIL in 1960 the US government formed a clandestine group of elite scientists called JASON. "The Jasons" meet in secret every summer and includes 11 Nobel Prize winners. Their report on the futility of tactical nuclear weapons may have saved a lot of lives during the Vietnam War.