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TIL there are more Subway restaurants than McDonald’s
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TIL Joanne Rowling, better known by her initials J K, does not have a middle name. The use of the author’s initials instead of her full name was a marketing ploy designed to make her work acceptable to boys.
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TIL Shel Silverstein wrote the song "A Boy Named Sue." Johnny Cash's version is a cover.
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TIL we know the exact date the Dalmatian language (one of the Romance languages) went extinct: June 10th, 1898. It is the day the last speaker of the language, Tuone Udaina, died in an explosion.
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TIL: Victorian era women wore utility belts where they kept all their handy tools. It was called a chatelaine, and was the woman’s equivalent of a Swiss army knife, so to speak.
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TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.