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TIL Jersey Mike’s Subs is named after a local New Jersey shop named Mike’s Submarines, and not after the owner and CEO Peter Cancro.

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nWelr TIL that Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, he was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000($387,575,106.38), believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.
aeyZ TIL Puppies are born blind, deaf, toothless, and unable to regulate body heat. They don’t start developing these until 2-4 weeks after being born.
M7M5a TIL that war has two distinct meanings: as a noun it means a state of armed conflict between different countries or groups; as a verb it means engage in a war.
NXnvE TIL: Umwelt, or the self-centered world of different organisms
Ma58 TIL the man who made a fortune selling Ouija boards built a factory according to what the board told him, then fell off its roof and died