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TIL Nelson Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008

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GAgmj TIL: a German SS commander, Priebke, was personally responsible for murdering 335 Italians, confessed. escaped to Argentina, eventually taken back to Italy, tried, convicted, and died happily at home at the ripe old age of 100.
9YPNm TIL Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell who watched long lines of customers at a Mexican restaurant. He ate there regularly, attempting to reverse-engineer the taco recipe, and eventually persuaded the owners to show him how they were prepared. With this knowledge, he opened a stand selling tacos.
1aOJd TIL The Spanish Flu effected the entire world, killing more than 50 million. The outbreak was during WWI and to keep morale high, wartime censors for many countries minimized it. Papers were free to report its effects in neutral Spain causing many to think it was largely confined to that country.
LZGm TIL Quentin Tarantino was an uncredited writer for It’s Pat!, a 1994 SNL comedy that grossed $60,822.
BNAd TIL on November 5, 1995, a deranged man entered the home of the Canadian Prime Minister with the intention of assassinating him. He was thwarted in his attempt when the wife of the Prime Minister simply locked their bedroom door.