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TIL there are now more mattress stores in the US than Starbucks

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oBEbK TIL that on the last day of his presidency, President Andrew Jackson admitted that he had but two regrets, that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun."
dl7E TIL that in 1972 a 1.7 billion year old nuclear reactor was discovered in Africa
agvA TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
KOnr9 TIL about Project Azorian. In 1974 the CIA built a gigantic claw and lowered it three miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to snag the entire wreck of a sunken Soviet submarine. And they partially succeeded.
oO5o TIL that the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska is never more than 55 meters deep.