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TIL K-Mart still exists in Australia and New Zealand

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N7GVE TIL One of the Last WWI veterans is a tortoise that lives in New Zealand named Torty the Tortoise
mx9ZY TIL that Fight Club was a major disappointment at the box office in 1999 and received mixed reviews from critics.
79JZ TIL that author John Steinbeck was investigated by the FBI for being acquaintances with leftists and attempting to write a novel exposing the conditions in Japanese concentration camps in 1943.
P0Pg TIL Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Packard won the toss and put Hewlett’s name first.
kOAe4 TIL after a unit conversion snafu, Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41k feet. The pilot, who flew gliders in his downtime, brought the plane down on an abandoned airfield which was being used as a racing circuit and everyone got out alive with only minor injuries.