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TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $10 billion foreign debt in order to avoid prosecution

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ZpLVY TIL of Anadromes, words that spell different words when reversed (e. g. mined <-> denim)
xVEYw TIL Robert Reed, the father from The Brady Bunch, was gay but never came out publicly in fear of ruining his career and the show
P1JpL TIL there was a study sponsored by sugar companies in the 1960's and written by Harvard researcher D. Mark Hegsted that claimed sugar was harmless and it was fat that caused heart attacks
8e47Z TIL the American Amusement Machine Association has created a color-coded content rating system for arcade games. Games for all ages are labeled green, while games with “mild” and “strong content” are labeled yellow and red respectively.
Wk898 TIL Radar was developed as a consequence of the urgent need to counter Nazi bomber attacks. The British Radio Research Station was asked to investigate a radio-based "death ray", but found it was more practical to use radio to detect enemy aircraft