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TIL The company that operates as Subway Restaurants is actually named Doctor’s Associate Inc

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GY0M1 TIL about Hurshid Pasha an Ottoman general who, after being informed of plans by his opponents to kill him, ordered the construction of a tomb and arranged for an elaborate funeral with all authorities present which he then committed suicide in front of.
Np7P TIL: Thomas Jefferson invented his “wheel cypher” in the 1790s and a deceptively innovative little device it is. In fact, this machine was so far ahead of its time, it was still in active use in the US military 150 years later at the beginning of WW2.
PYy4w TIL: Australia has the world's largest herd of wild camels. the population is estimated to be about 3 million, spread across 37% of the Australian mainland.
X0BJk TIL about Monowi, Nebraska, the smallest town on the US and probably the entire world with a population of ONE (Elsie Eiler, who runs the town bar and the library)
R9G1 TIL that the Wright Brothers achieved flight in a plane that cost roughly $1,000 to build. In the race to fly, they beat Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, who failed to achieve a successful flight, despite having $50,000 of government funding put toward his attempts.