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TIL That the United States is considered the origin of at least 60 different kinds of sandwiches.

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OGndX TIL Pink Floyd's song "Is There Anybody Out There?" features dialogue from the 1967 Gunsmoke TV episode 'Fandango'. The actress who asks, "Is it unsafe to travel at night?" is Diana Muldaur, who played doctors in the original Star Trek series and Dr. Pulaski in ST:Next Generation.
jN6ZX TIL that the record for passengers on a ship was set in WW2 by the Queen Mary: 16,082. The ocean liner was so fast it often sailed without escort and could outrun both submarines and torpedoes
p8o7O TIL 20,000 pounds of cheddar was stolen from a Wisconsin semitrailer in 2016. The perpetrators are suspected to be part of a crime "ring," and as of 2017, have yet to be caught.
ANWKn TIL The first ever "music video" was made in 1895 to test Thomas Edison's Kinetophone
kOdOd TIL in 1957 Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashed onto Rikers Island, New York’s 400 acre prison complex. Around 50 inmates rushed to help pull passengers from the wreckage. Later the governor set those prisoners free or reduced their sentences.