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TIL Subway Rolls Contain So Much Sugar They are Not Considered Bread In Ireland

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DRxY TIL that Florida Newscaster and TV personality Christine Chubbuck killed herself with a pistol on live TV. Her last words: “And now, in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you’re about to see another first - an attempted suicide.”
YogB TIL in a remote valley in Sweden, people still speak an ancient dialect of Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. It’s called Elfdalian and they still used runes up until the 1900s.
VB7J0 TIL Caribou are the only deer species that that male and female grow antlers.
v1xEB TIL: Some scientists say certain objects' unexpected orbits must be due to the presence of a gigantic planet beyond the solar system's Pluto. However, an emerging theory says the region's gravitational anomalies are better explained if the proposed object instead is a tiny early-stage black hole.*
EMKw TIL The SR-71 had an armed version called the F-12, which carried three Falcon missiles that were capable of mach 4. The aircraft was actually tested and shot down a bomber from nearly 74,000 feet. It was cancelled when Robert McNamara refused to release its funding, and instead spent it on Vietnam.