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TIL Subway spent $22M in 2007 keeping shows Chuck and Community on air, giving them creative freedom as long as they showed their subs. The creator of Community decided to show Subway any chance he could. The Chief Marketing Officer of Subway at the time said they "experienced double digit gains".

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7Agb TIL “[FBI] agents sought to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself just before he received the Nobel Prize. ‘King, there is one thing left for you to do. You know what it is,’ FBI operatives wrote in their anonymous letter.”
rNkJW TIL that there was a cat named Oscar who lived in a hospital, and he seemed to predict the death of patients by choosing to nap next to them a few hours before they died. Hypotheses for this include that Oscar was picking up on the lack of movement in such patients or that he could smell something.
A4pg TIL that the 19th century London campaign for sanitary reform and delivering clean water was opposed by critics as “a deduction from the charms of freedom.” The Times daily argued it was preferable to “take a chance with cholera than be bullied into health.”
DQ6p TIL Mattel’s best-selling Ken doll is Earring Magic Ken. An unintentionally gay doll wearing a purple vest, mesh shirt, and chrome cock ring necklace.
vEJ7 TIL James Gandolfini bought 450 watches — 40 of which made of gold — for the cast and crew of The Sopranos at the end of the serie. Total retail value: 2 million USD.