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TIL Pablo Escobar, despite being a wanted crime lord, took a photo with his son in front of the White House.

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wkO8 TIL a prop at an amusement park that was thought to be a mannequin was discovered to be the mummified body of a train robber
eQbg TIL: Many white tigers in zoos are white because of forced repetitive inbreeding and almost always born with genetic defects.
160Ld TIL it takes three months to clean the windows of the Burj Khalifa, and it's done four times a year, so the 36-man team's process never stops.
Yp55x TIL Octaviano Larrazolo was a Republican politician who served as the fourth governor of New Mexico and a United States senator. He was the first Mexican-American and first Latino United States Senator.
QJoye TIL that blue wine is actually a real thing! First produced in Spain, it is made from a mixture of white and red grapes, anthocyanine (devrived from the skin of red grapes) and indigotine for the colour and natural sweetners. It cannot actually be sold/marketed as wine in the European Union though.