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

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pJEN TIL that anti-occupation Rabbis have actually volunteered to be human shields in order to defend Palestinian villages from destruction
xVeL0 TIL during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis a second U2 Spy Plane had strayed into Soviet Airspace. When radioing for directions an unknown voice told him to turn right 35 degrees which would have taken him deeper into the Soviet Union. When asked for an identifying code there was no response.
wa06 TIL Jack Daniels employees get a free bottle of Jack on the first payday of each month.
pnQQ TIL that the summer of 1816 is called “the year without summer” due several compounding earth events lowering Earth’s temperature and eliminating summer that year.
eGAg TIL In WWII, German soldiers, high on a drug called Pervitin (crystal meth), would sprint tirelessly through the Ardennes at the onset of the war. Winston Churchill was dumbfounded at their performance. One German general even boasted that his men stayed awake for 17 straight days.