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TIL KMart still has six remaining brick-and-mortar locations. Three in the US Virgin Islands, and one each in Guam, Florida, and The Hamptons.

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0xKp TIL that one of Franz Ferdinand’s descendants is trying to reacquire his estate. This estate was seized by Czechoslovakia after the end of World War I, but this descendant argues that this seizure was unjust since Franz Ferdinand’s children weren’t members of the Habsburg royal family.
jWp TIL that 1991 to 2000, about 90% of the world’s LSD was made by one man.
D1MNp TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
YZGZ TIL that when CS Lewis went to an elite English boarding school in 1913, he found that homosexual relationships among students were “not [frowned upon as seriously as] wearing one’s coat unbuttoned.”
awOL0 TIL the Hindu god Krishna had 16,000 junior wives (or 16,100 depending on the source), and would duplicate himself so he could spend the nights with all of them simultaneously