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TIL London has a secret, 2nd underground rail network

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XrWR TIL The United States has more golf courses than the rest of the world combined.
OWW7 TIL that M&M’s were originally asked to be included in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. After Mars (The company that makes M&M’s) refused, their competitor Hershey was asked, and Reese’s Pieces were added to the movie instead, resulting in Reese’s Pieces sales going up as much as 300%
d8A0j TIL the CIA once failed at bribing Mr Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, which was then relatively undeveloped. After he revealed this in an interview, the US denied the incident. In a rage, Mr LKY revealed a letter he received from then US Secretary of State and threatened to disclose further information.
d845Q TIL that the Post-It note was created by employees at 3M during their own "permitted bootlegging" time, a company-sanctioned time in which employees could work on their own side projects.
VBG10 TIL that on Halloween in 2008 Doritos released a horror game called Hotel 626 that you could only play from 6pm to 6am and would call you in the middle of the night to scare you