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TIL there are five operating Kmart locations remaining. One runs out of the former Garden section of their Kendale Lakes, Florida location. One is in Guam. The other three are in the Virgin Islands.

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KYNE TIL the CDC issued a report outlining the very real likelihood of an impending untreatable gonorrhea epidemic.
0wrKR TIL that the condom-based toilets used by male NASA astronauts to pee came in three sizes: "small", "medium", "large". After some leaking events, the sizes were informally changed to "extra large", "immense" and "unbelievable".
69Wo8 TIL about a new type of chocolate 🍫 😋
5VXVD TIL - Methuselah is a 4,854-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world.
grOEy TIL The Hale telescope features a 200 inch (5.08m) diameter mirror. The mirror took 10 months anneal and was delivered to Caltech in 1936. The telescope was completed in 1948 as it took years of grinding and polishing to make the mirror accurate to 2/1,000,000ths of an inch of a perfect paraboloid.