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TIL all the “meat” on a Subway cold-cut combo is actually turkey-based.

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Brd4x TIL that Burning Mountain in Australia contains an underground coal fire that has burned for approximately 6000 years and is the oldest known coal fire.
aQe0 TIL Steve-O and Mike Tyson Did Coke in a Bathroom and Thought They Solved Racism
R59p8 TIL Not only do giant pandas defecate around 40 times a day on average and consume their mother's feces, but they also love to roll around in horse manure. They will rub horse manure all over themselves until their entire body is covered. Since they don't hibernate, this helps keep them warm.
a86mJ TIL some planes have an extra engine that isn't used for propulsion, but instead to power other systems in the aircraft
6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.