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TIL In 1996 as a hoax, Taco Bell printed in six major American newspapers that it had bought The Liberty Bell and was renaming it The Taco Liberty Bell.

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yQr6e TIL Tony Marohn purchased a 1924 Palmer Union Oil Company stock certificate for $5 at a estate sale. Palmer Union Oil was a predecessor to the Coca-Cola Company and the stock was worth $130 million. Due to legalities he was unable to redeem the stock and after litigation his family received nothing.
xV6Yb Today I Learned That Back In March of 2010, Someone Posted a Listing To Sell 10,000 Bitcoin for $50. No One Took The Offer. Today That Would Be Worth About 97 Million Dollars.
l56r TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later .
gMv0D TIL that a Texas man who shot an armadillo, got hit in the face by his own bullet that bounced off from the hard shell
4wyw TIL there’s an ancient Greek play where the women of Greece end a war by withholding sex until the men of Greece agree to peace.