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TIL Jeff Bezos paid more than $16,000 in parking tickets while renovating his DC mansion

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bXA0 TIL that Kazakhstan, a former USSR state that has never held a free election, dismantled its entire stockpile of over 1000 weapons in four years and actively leads nuclear disarmament talks.
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