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TIL Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel wrote off 10% of their money annually due to soilage because it would lie untouched for so long that rats would eat it or it would become water damaged.

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MeEMW TIL That the Paraguayan Department of 'Presidente Hayes' was named after 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
xVaMg TIL that after a screening of Pink Floyd The Wall, Steven Spielberg turned to the head of Warner Brothers and said “What the fuck was that?”
69eMW TIL that, on average, a dairy cow produces 100 pounds of milk per day, which equates to 12.5 gallons per day!
4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!
1aKA4 TIL the McDonald's Big Mac was invented by franchisee Jim Delligatti in Pittsburgh, PA. It had two previous names: the Aristocrat and Blue Ribbon Burger. It was first sold in 1967 and nationwide the following year.