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

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4vbw TIL that the entire Pink Floyd Album “Wish you were here” was written in tribute to Lead Singer and Song writer Syd Barrett after he departed the band due to “declining mental health”
QJnPL TIL of Sadi Carnot (father of thermodynamics) who replaced the previously long-lived idea that heat was a substance by the conception of heat as a quantitative property
rNy5M TIL about the Fermi Paradox which tries to reconcile math that shows a universe full of earth-like planets but we’ve yet to meet an Alien 👽
YpOmx TIL Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau, was so hated that when he joined a Christian free love commune, no one would have sex with him. They started calling him Charles Gitout, a play on words for "get out".
oRoPK TIL Due to the difficulty of obtaining life insurance for astronauts, crews of the Apollo program devised a plan of signing hundreds of postcards before their missions. Their families would sell the covers in the event of their demise