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TIL that the ham, salami, and bologna on a Subway Cold Cut Combo sandwich is turkey-based.

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KOrVJ TIL that Jean Valjean, the main character from Les Miserables, has a father, mother, and sister that are canonically named Jean, Jeanne, and Jeanne respectively.
GA9dN TIL The first album ever to be remixed in Dolby Atmos was Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus by Luca Turilli's Rhapsody in 2016. It was chosen because of the way Luca Turilli combines metal instruments with choirs and orchestras in a style he called 'filmscore metal'.
b6Joa TIL A Qantas Boeing 747 once carried an extra engine on its wing between Sydney and Johannesburg
5YBjr TIL of a legend of Bodhidharma a Monk who fell asleep wall gazing, to stop it happening again he cut off his eyelids. When his eyelids hit the ground they became the first tea plants. This is apparently why the character for eyelids and tea are the same in Japanese.
rNy71 TIL there is a species of lizard that removes Lyme disease in ticks. A protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick's gut responsible for the disease.