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TIL that the US helped France improve its nuclear weapons. Since US law prevents sharing atomic-bomb information, France and the US used a method called “negative guidance” or “Twenty Questions”; French scientists described to Americans their research, and were told whether they were correct.

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.
mx84O A 23-year-old man fell into Yellowstone Park's hot spring and completely dissolved within a day. The waters of the hot spring aren't just incredibly hot, but very acidic too. This is due to one of the largest magma chambers in the world beneath the spring.
YpPbd TIL During a 1989 Christmas television broadcast, Santa Claus encouraged all children to hold the phone to the TV, tricking them into dialing a 1-900 number that automatically charged several dollars to their parents' phone bill.
awj0A TIL that the slowest car to ever lap the Nurburgring was a Trabant P50 which had a time of 16 minutes and 1 second.
MemMA TIL Dr. Seuss saw children's literature as a step down in a writer's career. Geisel was loved by millions of children but couldn't have children of his own; he wanted his work to be published but panicked when he had to talk about it publicly