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Today I learned that Pablo Escobar Owned a football team in Colombia

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4kr06 TIL about Operation Flagship: A sting operation where invitations to claim NFL tickets were sent to wanted fugitives. The operation resulted in 101 captured fugitives.
b61pE TIL that the Magna Carta of 1215 introduced legal principles like due process, trial by jury, and limits on arbitrary authority, ideas that later influenced multiple amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
ANYQ7 TIL there's an unexplained global effect called "The Hum" only heard by about 2-4% of the world's population. The phenomenon was recorded as early as the 1970s, and its possible causes range from industrial environments, to neurological reasons, to tinnitus, to fish.
gXVA TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire
a8rBJ TIL that the guy who wrote “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is now an 87-year old competitive runner, having won multiple national and international competitions in his age group.