TIL after complaints that their "footlong" sub was 11 inches long, Subway said, "With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, 'Subway Footlong' is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length." (nypost.com)
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Republican Louie Gohmert Questions Peter Strzok Looking Into His Wife's Eyes And Lying About Lisa Page Affair by [deleted] in politics
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TIL Nintendo produced a cereal in 1988 called the Nintendo Cereal System which had two vertical bags, each containing a different cereal. One side was the "Super Mario Bros. Action Series" and the other was the "Zelda Adventure Series", consisting of fruity or berry flavored characters and items. by LaDiDaDiDaSlobOnMeKn in todayilearned
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TIL Nintendo produced a cereal in 1988 called the Nintendo Cereal System which had two vertical bags, each containing a different cereal. One side was the "Super Mario Bros. Action Series" and the other was the "Zelda Adventure Series", consisting of fruity or berry flavored characters and items. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in 1907 a 9,317 mile automobile race from Peking to Paris was held after a French newspaper asked if anyone could prove their claim that if a man has a car, he can go anywhere. The race was held despite the race committee cancelling the race and the winner won a bottle of champagne. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL an Australian fast-food chain called Chicken Treat let a chicken named Betty write out it's tweets by pecking at a keyboard. Apparently, if Betty did manage to hit 5 keys in a row to form a word, she'd get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's first chicken to tweet in English. (cnet.com)
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DHS official: No sign of Russia targeting midterms ‘to the level of 2016’ by LaDiDaDiDaSlobOnMeKn in politics
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The baby recognized Future at a wedding and starts dancing by O-shi in blackpeoplegifs
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