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TIL in 2006, Quiznos sent mystery shoppers to franchise stores and sued owners for not putting enough meat in a prime rib sandwich. The owners won a lawsuit against Quiznos, with the judge calling Quizno's meat-weighing exercise a "charade" to bolster its national ad campaign against Subway.

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rLDe TIL the book ‘Walden’ by Henry David Thoreau is often seen as a 'bible’ for self-sufficiency enthusiasts. However, while many picture Thoreau as a hermit in the woods, his cabin on the lake was about a mile from town, where he would often go to visit his mother, who did his laundry for him.
XELYP TIL The word villain comes from the Latin word villa. A villain is a person from the village or common folk. For the wealthy it came to represent the uncouth, treacherous or even a scoundrel or criminal.
5V8PB TIL that Tom Hanks is a collector of manual typewriters and uses them almost daily. In August 2014, he released Hanx Writer, an iOS app meant to emulate the experience of using a typewriter.
oR4pK TIL Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who built a 60" telescope and started a bigger 200" telescope, had an imaginary elf who acted as his advisor. His psychological problems got so bad it forced him to resign as director of Mount Wilson observatory
1a41X TIL the creators of Fever Pitch had to rewrite the ending - they expected the Red Sox to lose in the playoffs, and wrote the original script accordignly, but the Boston team surprised them by winning the World Series.