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TIL US Credit Card Balances Surpass $1 Trillion for the First Time

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epDjn TIL Last year Missouri Highway patrol accidentally sent out an Amber alert for the "residents of Gotham to be on the lookout for a purple/green 1978 Dodge 3700 GT sedan, with license plate “UKIDME"" From Batman 1989
P1lLJ TIL Taco Bell is named after its founder, Glen Bell. He served tacos at his first restaurant, Bell’s hamburgers
wY1Y TIL Coca-Cola hired paramilitary hitmen to murder union leaders in Columbia
9YvG7 TIL that in 1964 British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was almost kidnapped by two students with political motivations. He persuaded them not to by pointing out that his kidnapping would ensure a Conservative victory in next election, gave the two a case of beer, and bid them goodnight.