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TIL There is Exactly One Known Remaining Jew in Afghanistan, He Sells Kababs

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W71w4 TIL that 200 students received "graduataion" diplomas in 2012. Spring Creek High School in Nevada received the misspelled documents from Jostens, which quickly sent corrected diplomas by mail to the students.
rRWN4 TIL Sears once sold on mail order an entire house as a giant DIY kit. There were over 370 home designs, and the house had over 30,000 parts worth 25 tons. Sears claimed a man of “average” abilities could assemble it in 90 days.
XEM0R TIL The Congo River is the deepest river in the world, at over 750 feet deep in places (currents make it hard to know how much deeper it is). It also has the most endemic species of any river.
R5rJ8 TIL that the Corona beer company owns an island in the Caribbean, which is named Corona Island.
LER9 TIL in 1995 a Walmart store banned a shirt that said “Someday a Woman Will Be President” because it ran afoul of “the company’s family values.”