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TIL in 2020 Subway rolls were officially named as cake by the Irish government after they were found to have five times the sugar content of normal bread.

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LYY9 TIL: multiple shows including, the walking dead, Malcolm in the middle and breaking bad have used a fictional cigarette brand called morley.
4eBa TIL Nicotine is the tobacco plant’s evolutionary defence mechanism, which makes insects sick when they eat the plant, thus saving the plant from being eaten!
nenLb TIL that out of all 77 restaurants that appeared on Kitchen Nightmares (US), only 16 remain open as of 2019. The latest restaurant to close was La Galleria 33 in November 2018.
eB0L TIL The Colombian army created a pop song with a Morse code beat to communicate with kidnapped military personnel
wLOrM TIL There’s a doctor who offers Direct Primary Care. A service that works as a monthly membership. Depending on age, you can pay anywhere from $10 to $89 a month. They do not bill insurance and gives all medication and lab work done at cost. Conventional system can be up to 80x the cost.