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TIL in Bethel, Alaska (population 6,200), pranksters papered the town with flyers & banners advertising the arrival of a Taco Bell restaurant which was false. After hearing of the residents' disappointment, Taco Bell helicoptered in a truck laden with 10,000 tacos which was then mobbed by thousands.

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pYwwb TIL in the wake of the Mississippi Burning murders, the FBI, having no leads or informants, enlisted the help of mafia enforcer Gregory Scarpa. His kidnap and 'interrogation' of a local suspect provided the information the DOJ needed to prosecute within days.
a6Xy TIL Flash Gordon retired from acting and now does corporate security and hostage extraction in Mexico
yQexX TIL that in 1945, Kodak accidentally discovered the US were secretly testing nuclear bombs because the fallout made their films look fogged
pkl4 TIL there’s a Flight 666 registered with Finnair that has traveled to HEL (Helsinki), on multiple occasions of Friday the Thirteen.
p8jMN TIL Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI's Do Not Call list