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TIL When Taco Bell attempted to enter Mexico their food was labeled as “Authentic American Food”

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woypY TIL The CCI Prison Execution House Is Still Standing
5VVd8 TIL that a farmer from New Zealand named Kotahi-Manawa Bradford was accidentally turned into a character for the board game Rising Sun after his friends created a fake Wikipedia entry describing him as a mythical Japanese monster.
Eaw0 TIL that the K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, has no local name. It is so remote and inaccessible that very few local people knew of its existence, and thus why it retains its original surveying moniker given to it by British surveyors.
Me8xA TIL of the longest word in Greek, a dish invented by the ancient comedian Aristophanes: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. Made of dogfish and pigeon.
6W5J TIL in 1988 Quentin Tarantino made an appearance on the Golden Girls as an Elvis impersonator