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TIL Kmart USA is down to its final 10 stores!
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TIL that the volcanic destruction of Pompeii didn't kill everyone; archeologists now believe most of the population survived, based on the lack of carts, horses, ships and valuables in the ruins; they've also found later inscriptions with Pompeiian family names in nearby cities
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TIL that David Prowse hasn’t yet received his residual checks for Return of The Jedi because according to Hollywood Accounting, the film hasn’t turned a profit
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TIL that Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night was actually just a translation of a song by the exact same name, "Stranci u Noći" by Ivo Robić, Croatian singer that lived in my city
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TIL that a county in Oregon advertised that it was hiring Klingon translators for its mental health program, in case patients came into a psychiatric hospital speaking nothing but Klingon. They later clarified that this wasn't a situation they had faced, and only a precaution for a hypothetical case
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TIL the US won the gold, silver, and bronze medals in tug of war at the 1904 Summer Olympics.