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TIL there is not a single Taco Bell in Mexico.

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P1DeL TIL about Velvalee Dickinson, a.k.a. the Doll Lady, an American doll-collector-turned-spy for imperial Japan during WW2. She sent coded letters about Navy ships, ostensibly about dolls, w/ the return addresses of other collectors with whom she'd previously had disagreements
R5jm4 TIL Joe 'Hill' (Stephen King's son) a Whovian, once sent the BBC, three of his pitches for Doctor Who, edited with Neil Gaiman, "We've never let an American write for this show and if we were, we wouldn't start with you."
grWV4 TIL of the 2011 Norwegian Butter Crises, which led to multiple countries gathering up butter and sending it to the butter-starved Norwegians - as well as having multiple companies offer .5 - 1 kilogram of butter to incentivize a purchase.
N7Dob TIL the Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. The US constitution was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy.
MA0W TIL unarmed citizen crime patrollers called the Guardian Angels - set up to fight subway crime in NYC in 1979 - faked incidents with “muggers” and “rapists” in order to gain publicity.