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TIL Taco Bell has locations in 22 countries including China, Iceland and Guam but none in Mexico. They tried but failed twice to start locations there. Mexicans had trouble identifying what certain items were because of their inauthentic names. They had to rebrand the “Crunchy Taco” to a “Tacostada”

AN7nl TIL of the Boy Scout Nuclear Science Merit Badge. The requirements to receive the badge include building a Geiger counter, planting irradiated and nonirradiated seeds, and visiting an accelerator (research lab) or university where people study the properties of the nucleus or nucleons.
X0QPj TIL that despite its name, "Kentish Town", an area of London, is neither a town nor located in Kent, has never been part of Kent, and there is nothing particularly "Kentish" about it.
kJ1GB TIL of the Greek god Dionysus (created circa 1,300BC) had a mythology so similar to Jesus the two shared multiple nicknames, origin fables, death fables, "profession," and even being "a sacred king killed and eaten in an eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification."
xVR6o TIL An English manager has never won the Premier League. Since the Premier League started in 1992 11 managers have won but none of them have been English
epkAJ TIL that Teddy Roosevelt, while in the White House, had 10 Dogs, 5 Guinea Pigs, 2 Cats, a Hen and a Rooster, a Macaw, a Barn Owl, a Horned Frog, a Rat, a Rabbit, a Snake and 2 Ponies. To make things more interesting he also had a Badger, a Laughing a Hyena, a Bear and a Lion