› added 6 years ago

86

TIL In 1996, Taco Bell duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell

Read more history.com

via reddit.com

9g8X TIL in 2013, J.K. Rowling secretly released a book under a different name in order to release a book “without hype and expectation.” When she was revealed to be the author, the book surged from 4,709th on Amazon to the 1st best-selling novel.
4kvBN TIL that the cornfield in the beginning of Interstellar was planted specifically for the movie and sold for a profit
950m TIL Freddie Mercury of Queen once dressed Princess Diana as a man and took her clubbing. Nobody recognized her.
Vo9D TIL Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all telephone and internet traffic that crosses its border
5Ym1n TIL That the Czech language was saved from extinction by puppet shows. In the 17th century, the Catholic Ferdinand II forced the Protestant Czech people to speak in German and banned the Czech language. Puppets were the only remaining entities that had the right to speak Czech in public places.