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TIL a Quizno’s store manager kept her abandoned store open for months by using the cash from sales to buy bread and discount lunch meats

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RAd7 TIL that it was a physician named John Snow who deduced that the cause of spread of Cholera in London in mid-nineteenth century, was contaminated water. His evidence included the 70 workers in the local brewery who only drank beer and all survived.