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TIL Taco Bell has special restaurants labeled cantina that sells alcoholic drinks

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awLZ TIL an Australian journalist was kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents, but was released 24 hours later after the Iraqi insurgents used Google to verify that he’s journalist.
ydNM TIL In 2003, Prеs. Bush startеd PEPFAR, providing antirеtroviral drugs to African nations, lowеring thе AIDS ratе by 10% and saving 1.1 million livеs
xpX5 TIL Queen’s record label, upon hearing “Bohemian Rhapsody” in 1975, suggested it should be cut down prior to its release. Freddie Mercury and his bandmates refused.
lo1BB TIL that scientists have concluded that a Greenland shark is 512 years old. If correct, it means it’s the oldest living vertebrate on the planet.
ADAY7 TIL the world's foremost expert on ants chose to study ants because when he begun his entomology career in 1947, insect pins were hard to come by due to WWII metal shortages. Unlike other insects, ants are stored in vials, not pinned.