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TIL that Kmart has 1 remaining store in the Continental U.S.

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ne5n7 TIL that in the California Condor Recovery Plan, researchers and breeders removed condor eggs and used condor puppets to raise and feed the chicks from those eggs. Parent condors would then lay more eggs to replace the taken eggs, thus increasing their reproductive rate.
eJb6 TIL Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of Thorn. Thorn is a company outsourced by the FBI to catch pedophiles and stop sex trafficking.
AD0Q4 TIL that in 1985, Aretha Franklin’s voice was legally declared one of Michigan’s natural resources.
oBGmA TIL one of the biggest bank heists in history took place in Beirut where ~$2 billion was stolen
0w4eA TIL that Germany started paying World War I reparations in 1921 through Gold and Bonds, which was cancelled by Hitler when he came to power, but Germany resumed the payments again in 1953 post World War II, and kept making payments until October 2010 when the final one was made to officially end WWI