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TIL the Cali Cartel murdered so many people and dumped their bodies in the Cauca River that the local municipality was eventually bankrupt by the cost of recovering corpses and conducting autopsies.

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P1jEE TIL that Michael Gambon was such a private person that when asked by a reporter about his wife he replied "What wife?" He later had an affair with a woman 25 years his junior and had 2 kids with her, but bequeathed nearly his whole fortune to his legal wife while his girlfriend got nothing.
DQ0dp TIL one of the few people actually killed by an Australian Cassowary was an American man who thought it was a good idea to keep one as a pet.
WwdA TIL in 1795, as Joseph Haydn conducted the premiere of his 102nd symphony, the audience pressed forward out of their seats to get closer to the famous composer. Moments later, a chandelier crashed to the floor where the seats had emptied, killing no one and giving this piece the name “The Miracle”.
loXk7 TIL Prehistoric rock art in the Saharan desert indicates that there were ancient hallucinogenic mushroom cults as far back as 9,000 years ago. The mushrooms were used in rituals of a mystico-religious nature, with drawings of Gods draped with the venerated mushrooms appearing repeatedly
wy0W TIL Uganda is the “youngest” country in the world. Half its population is under 15, and 75% of its population is under 30.