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TIL there are more Subways in the US than McDonald’s and Starbucks... combined.

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Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.
jRAQ TIL that John Lasseter (CEO of Pixar) was fired from Disney for promoting computer animation
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