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TIL Taco Bell is named after its founder, Glen Bell. He served tacos at his first restaurant, Bell’s hamburgers

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OGYMX TIL about MiniScribe, a hard drive manufacturing company from the '80s who tried to cover up an inventory shortage by packing 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipping them to their distributor.
9Ykkm TIL of the horrific murder of Junko Furuta, whose case details were so morbid, they caused court spectators to faint when read aloud.
M7NlA TIL that Chile's only two Olympic gold medals were both won in men's tennis in 2004
DQAOp TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.
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