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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Taco Bell Once Trolled America By Claiming It Had Bought The Liberty Bell
Description: Today in 1776, it's said that the Liberty Bell rang out in Philadelphia for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. More than two centuries later, a fast food giant put out fake ads claiming that it had acquired the Liberty Bell to help pay off the national debt. Plus: today in 1978, Def Leppard played its first-ever concert, in Sheffield, England, though it didn’t exactly start off with a bang.
Hold the taco sauce, Liberty Bell is safe (Philadelphia Inquirer via Newspapers.com)
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