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TIL that Subway now has more restaurants worldwide than McDonalds.

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0wkbp TIL that the domain name ".tv" is the domain representing the country of Tuvalu. In 1998, Tuvalu signed a contract for the exclusive marketing rights for the domain name, allowing it to finally raise enough money to join the United Nations.
Y85d TIL in 1954 the USSR proposed a dam to the U.S. that would close off the Bering Straight. The Soviets claimed it would block arctic cold currents that flow down over Korea and the Sea of Japan, warming it as much as 30 degrees. The U.S. declined.
gMGYW TIL Oyster mushrooms are carnivorous and feed on roundworms by secreting a toxin that paralizes and dissolves them so they can be digested by the mushroom
Eg9Od TIL Leonardo da Vinci designed a 12-barreled rapid-fire type of machine gun which was intended to be both lightweight and quite mobile on the battlefield. While he worked on such weapons for the benefit of his patrons, he also did so out of intellectual curiosity.
GYmKj TIL that in rap beef there really is no winner.