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

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VMLa4 TIL, that before he got into writing massive-selling thrillers, James Patterson worked for advertising firm J. Walter Thompson, where he is credited with coming up with the jingle “I’m a Toys R Us Kid.”
9Ye7r TIL Kiwifruits were originally called Chinese gooseberries, as they are native to China. The name was first changed to melonette, which was unpopular because melons were subject to higher tariffs than other fruit. They were renamed kiwifruits in 1959.
dbZ7 TIL that China employs mobile “death vans” to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.
4M46 TIL the human liver performs more than 500 functions.
bOYp TIL while pregnant with Tupac, Afeni Shakur was in jail on charges of conspiracy to blow up department stores, subways and police stations. Acting as her own lawyer, she was acquitted just a month before Tupac was born