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TIL there is still one K-Mart left in America.

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5VWNP TIL despite their rivalry, Tesla & Edison worked together. In 1884 they clashed over direct current (DC) vs. alternating current (AC). Edison promoted DC, while Tesla AC, which became the standard. Edison offered Tesla $50,000 to improve his DC generators but reneged on the deal.
Bx4d TIL of Dave Shaw. A deep-water diver who,while trying to break the world record for diving,found the body of another diver who had been missing for 10 years.
b66oZ TIL There are plans to turn Buzz Aldrin's childhood home in New Jersey into a museum. The annual cost to maintain and run the museum will be about $290,000, including $160,000 in salary for four staffers
LpRp TIL some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
78oQp TIL that in Ninilchik, Alaska, there is a still spoken isolated dialect of Russian that hasn't evolved since +150 years ago.