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R5Y84 TIL In 1986, biologist Noel Kempff Mercado and his team inadvertently stumbled upon a secret cocaine production facility in Bolivia’s Huanchaca National Park. The drug traffickers subsequently killed Kempff Mercado and most of his team. The national park would later be renamed after Kempff Mercado.
nWPvo TIL that giant “Terror Birds” (dinosaur descendants) ruled as apex predators in South America until about 1.8 million years ago. They ruled for nearly 60 million years after the dinosaurs, until the Great American Interchange.
4kZNg TIL Armand Hammer didn't create Arm & Hammer baking soda. The brand existed 31 years before he was born, though he later bought stock in the company because people kept asking him about the connection