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TIL There are only 3 Kmart stores left in the US

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awrQM TIL a man in China sold his kidney to buy an iPhone when he was 17 and is now bedridden for life.
pOZp TIL after opening of the New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, a rumor came about that the Bridge was unstable and was going to collapse. To prove it was safe, P.T. Barnum led 21 elephants across it on May 17, 1884.
A78l TIL that William Shatner has been in or on at least one movie or TV show every year since 1957.
BgrNL TIL about Agloe, New York. A fake town created by a US map company as a copyright trap that became real when a man put a general store there and named it after the name he saw on the map. The map company learned about this right when they sued a competitor for plagiarism and thus lost the case.
XP7r TIL that the Catholic Church does not support capitalism, libertarianism, or socialism, but instead a middle ground economic theory called Distributism. It promotes the widest possible distribution of the means of production.