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TIL the founder of Subway started it to try to pay for his tuition fees through Med School

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xeE5 TIL Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) was born to a civil rights advocate and a Kenyan revolutionary. He also graduated from Harvard University.
OGEg4 TIL about the Japanese term Yaoyorozu No Kami (Eight Million Gods). The idea behind it is that there are countless gods, believed to be present in everything—weather, geography, landscapes, and even in things like tools, rice, kitchens and toilets.
QNoL TIL Disney’s animated film “Mars Needs Moms” is the biggest box office bomb in history
epnEE TIL An estimated 1-3% of the population is virtually allergic to much of their food, especially processed or canned food and may not know it: Histamine Intolerance: the Current State of the Art
OJ6 TIL that in the early Roman Empire,light-color hair was associated with the barbarian women of Gaul and Germany who often ended up as slaves in brothels. Consequently, Roman law required all prostitutes to dye their hair blonde in order to distinguish themselves from “proper,” dark-mane ladies.