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TIL there are still many many more bizarre species to be discovered like this fish that cannot swim

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LkY49 TIL that Prince's estate released the original demos of the Bangles hit Manic Monday and Sinéad O'Connors, Nothing compares to U with rare rehearsal footage.
djR7 TIL that in 1965, 25% of all black families in the U.S. were headed by women. By 2010, that number reached 72%
prAe TIL Pablo Escobar murdered a Presidential candidate/The secretary of Justice/The inspector General/various congressman/kidnapped the future president/murdered the Chief editor of the biggest Newspaper/and bankrolled an operation that ended with the death of almost all the supreme court justices
rRnVy TIL GPS originated after American scientists scrambled to track Sputnik.
pYZPQ TIL Olive Yang, a Chinese housewife turned Narco-warlord. A smuggler since she was 19, she built a private army called "Olive's Boys" and took over an entire Burmese Province in the 1950s. Alongside rogue KMT army units, she helped jumpstart the infamous "Golden Triangle" Drug Trafficking Routes.