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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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VMZe8 TIL that 20th centuries physicist and Nobel laureate JJ Thomson had 9 students who later won the Nobel prize in physics or chemistry. Robert Oppenheimer was also one of his students.
awkkM TIL that Vesna Vulović, a former flight attendant, holds the world record for surviving the longest free fall without a parachute (10.1 kilometers). Following the plane crash (of which she was the sole survivor), she was willing to resume working flights, however the airline gave her a desk job.
mxDlM TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was a follower of Gandhi and believed in the non violence method to get rid of oppression.
WG4d TIL after working on the US bid for the 1986 World Cup, Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying “The politics of FIFA, they make me nostalgic for the Middle East”.
QNag6 TIL the Water integrator in the USSR, invented in 1936, used water levels in various chambers to solve inhomogeneous differential equations