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TIL Boris Yeltsin abandoned communism partly due to a visit to a Randall's Grocery store in Clear Lake, TX

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NXvNN TIL Ronald Reagan, the second oldest US President at 77, had Alzheimer's while president (said his son)
X0LvQ TIL there's an island in Japan, Aoshima, that has more cats than people. Known as "Cat Island," it has become a curious destination for tourists, illustrating the cats' dominance over their human counterparts.
1lnX TIL: No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.
GY8gG TIL that Disneyland and Disney World are "national defense airspace" no-fly zones, and have been since 2003.
9Yjor TIL that so many people around the world still use Kerosene lamps because they don't have electricity that they consume about the same amount of Kerosene as the US uses in jet fuel (which is essentially also Kerosene)