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TIL Germany has special documents protecting companies and universities from "being infiltrated by scientologists"

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OZg4 TIL there are more Subway restaurants in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonald’s combined
pwYb TIL Bear Grylls has launched a survival academy. There are 3-day or 6-day courses currently offered in Scotland and will be expanding to the US in 2013.
7rvJM TIL That the Titanic had only about 2/3 of its maximum capacity of people when it sank and more than 1000 extra people could have died had it been at maximum capacity
OZ76 TIL if a Roman general saved an entire army or legion, he could be awarded a crown woven from grass on the battlefield. It was considered the highest military honor.
LQ5j9 TIL about LtCol Rankin, who parachuted through a thunderstorm in 1959 when his plane engine died at 47k feet. Due to repeatedly being sucked back into and ejected from the top of the thunderstorm, it took him 40 minutes to reach the ground.