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TIL Subway is just as unhealthy as McDonalds, according to researchers at UCLA

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LGv0 TIL the chip on SIM cards and credit cards is a fully functioning computer, the device it is placed in simply provides power to it
aByy TIL the largest nuclear disaster in the U.S. was at Santa Susana Field Laboratory in CA and it released 240 times the amount of radiation than the incident at Three Mile Island
BrRXK TIL that in 1969 the Black Panther Party planned a free breakfast program for children, but before the first program was opened "the Chicago police broke into the church and mashed up all the food and urinated on it".
5VwRB TIL that subatomic particles can be detected by the naked eye with a simple homemade device called a Cloud Chamber that uses dry ice and alcohol
m1Ewy TIL Ruben Enaje, a Filipino carpenter, has been crucified 34 times. He has been crucified every year from 1986 through 2019 on Good Friday.