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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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m1NVO TIL about transgenerational effects the Dutch famine of 1944. Children of pregnant women at this time are more likely to develop health issues like diabetes. Even further, their great grandchildren are also more likely to develop health issues (despite only being developing eggs during the famine).
69ev8 TIL Florida has an invasive population of wild monkeys that carry a strain of herpes that is transmissible to humans and can kill you.
8978 TIL that the members of blink-182 (around the time of Enema Of The State) had incorporated under the name Poo Poo Butt, LLC. because “it would be funny to have our accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.”
78Q0r TIL that Calcifying Nanoparticles are self replicating organic particles found in blood and smaller than any known bacteria
E14Kw TIL that during the cold war the United States developed a rifle capable of firing low-yield nuclear warheads over 4 kilometers.