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TIL a Subway sandwich artist was trapped in a refrigerator overnight and wrote a desperate plea for help in ketchup.

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N765Q TIL about Dr. Chester Southam who injected live cancer cells into people with questionable ability to consent, including senile patients under long-term care. He was charged with unprofessional conduct and later went on to become President of the American Association for Cancer Research
J1lyv TIL that the terms “left” and “right” in politics stem from the seating arrangements during the French Nat’l Assembly. Delegates were split on how much power King Louis XVI should have—enraged, anti-royalist revolutionaries sat to the left of the presiding officer.
8eAbV TIL about Sacoglossans, otherwise known as 'solar-powered sea slugs', that are incorporating living chloroplasts from their food source into their tissues to camouflage, otherwise called 'kleptoplasty'. And also that they're unique species apart of protists to do so.
oBx1K TIL that Blackbeard, despite being famous as a successful and bloodthirsty pirate, actually got far less money than other pirates of the time, and there is no evidence to suggest that he murdered or harmed his captives, or even forced them to stay with his crew.
4w1w TIL after 11 years in space, the Rosetta probe was intentionally crashed into a comet in order to provide close-up photos on its final descent. Scientists said they wanted it to go out in “true rock'n'roll style.”