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TIL Subway Passed McDonald’s as the World’s Largest Franchise in 2010

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QJ7E TIL Cornell University researchers built the world’s smallest guitar,played by a laser, about the size of a red blood cell.
b9Z47 TIL: There is around $60 billion of unclaimed treasure still under the sea.
ANDj7 TIL that Nearly half of Americans (49%) have parallelophobia, or the fear of parallel parking. Only about half (53%) feel “very confident” in their parallel parking skills.
NXveE TIL on a beach in 2004 10-yr-old Tilly Smith recognized the signs in the ocean that a tsunami was minutes away because she had studied it 2 weeks before in school. She told a hotel chef who recognized the word tsunami & helped evacuate the area. Her actions are believed to have saved about 100 lives
88MV TIL there is a man who has defused over 10,000 land-mines without pay.