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TIL after complaints that their "footlong" sub was 11 inches long, Subway said, "With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, 'Subway Footlong' is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length."

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4k4P6 TIL of the Battle of Caribou, in which neither the US nor Canada lost any troops due to combat - but a couple of armed Canadian lumberjacks were injured by bears.
woO4P TIL How Tammany Hall got its name. Tamanend (c. 1625–c. 1701) was the Chief of Chiefs of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley & he signed the Peace Treaty with William Penn. He became known as Tammany.
7rLWp TIL that the online MMORPG "Star Wars: The Old Republic" held a massive memorial after the death of Carrie Fisher. Among the efforts, Sith players would hold off NPCs so that weaker players could get through, and one player even made a new character in Leia's likeness so people could pay respects.
YAGB TIL that when our ancestors started walking upright on two legs, our skeleton configuration changed affecting our pelvis and making our hips narrower, and that’s why childbirth is more painful and longer for us than it is to other mammals.
JYllj TIL the famous Leroy Jenkins video from WOW was re-staged since no one recorded the real event. The video posted to YouTube was acted.