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

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97OQ TIL:In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year’s full tuition at a in state 4-year public university. This assumes the national average of the cost of a 4 year university and doesn’t include room and board.
QJkBL TIL the most powerful radio station ever was so strong locals could hear it in pipes, bedsprings, and pots and pans. It was located in OH and it's broadcast covered the eastern half of the US.
a8ORb TIL in 1979 researcher John Merritt placed a photographic memory test in publications across the US. He estimated that roughly 1 million people took the test & of that number, 30 wrote in with the correct answer. However, when he visited 15 of them in their homes, not one could duplicate the feat.
x8wD TIL that an Icelandic MP arranged for the relocation of a 30-ton boulder, which he believes is home to three generations of elves that saved his life in a serious car accident with that rock.