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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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8aLEb TIL that the patent for insulin was sold by the co-founders to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Their intention was that such an important medication should be affordable to all who need it. In the USA in 2016, patients were paying on average $450 per month for their prescriptions of insulin.
mbrY TIL Catholic and Protestant areas in Northern Ireland are still separated by walls up to 25 feet tall called “peace lines”
16rvr TIL in the early 20th century, endurance cyclists would often take nitroglycerin and strychnine (a pesticide) as performance-enhancers, thus causing hallucinations. Cyclist Major Taylor once refused to continue a race, saying that "there is a man chasing me around the ring with a knife in his hand"
8e7rZ TIL Ronald Reagan's second Chief of Staff, from 1985 to 1987, was a man named Donald Regan.
R75Gw TIL between 2011 and 2014, the US Department of Defense spent $43 million for a single gas station only a few cars could even use in Afghanistan.