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

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wLNBY TIL in 559 BC a chinese prisoner was sentenced to death by being flown off the top of a large tower attached to a kite. He survived the flight, and claimed the record of the highest jump survived by a person in the process. He was later starved to death in prison.
4XZaw TIL although regular concrete needs steel formwork, 3D printed concrete has different methods of achieving structural integrity
awm9o TIL Congress had an Office of Technology Assessment to provide members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the day, but was defunded in 1995
5VwZr TIL that german Rudolf Spanner made soap out of human fat in Danzig during world war 2
ay5J TIL that the most common last name among American physicians is no longer “Smith”, it’s “Patel”.