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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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8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)
grWAL TIL that Western countries are sending their old digital appliances to a graveyard of electronics near the Ghanaian capital Accra. After arriving at the dump the old divices are dismantled for scrap. Work at the waste site is toxic but locals often use kids to do the job.
0ww8y TIL America’s “Time Lord” is Dr. Judah Levine, the guy who sets the time upon which all of our devices are synced. He’s done this job since figuring out how to keep perfect time in 1969.
woEO1 TIL: The AICPA (which is responsible for All CPAs in America), has a program known as the "Federal Key Person" for CPAs who know a Congressperson or a person who knows a Congressperson. They receive information from the AICPA when important matters arise, to privately inform their assigned target.
RNyl TIL Ice cream floats used to be so popular that some local governments made it a controlled substance