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TIL there are more Subway restaurants than McDonald’s

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yNNl TIL - The American Family Association (One Million Moms) is recognized as an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
N7Wjb TIL the important jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's first saxophone was made of plastic. He bought it because he couldn't afford one made from metal. At first he didn't like the sound, though he continued to play it for years after he likely could have afforded a metal one
avbN TIL that a drunk broke into Arlington National Cemetery at night in Dec 1982, had a heart attack, fell onto the JFK Eternal Flame and was subsequently burned to death
yVQJe TIL John Wayne Gacy's brain was removed post-mortem and given to a Forensic Psychiatrist, who keeps it in her basement along with slices of all of his organs.
9YgLm TIL Abraham Lincoln's assassination helped to popularize travel by train due to the amount of press and exposure Lincoln's funeral train received. Up until then, most Americans had never seen a passenger train.