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TIL that at the height of its power, Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel were spending $2500 a month on rubber bands to wrap their cash with

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v1m44 TIL of John Frederick Parker, the bodyguard assigned to Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination, not only was he 3 hours late, but he left his post to get a drink at a saloon next door. It was during this that Booth entered the box seats where Lincoln was sitting and shot the president.
NaMQ TIL In 1944, at Auschwitz, 5 men managed to smuggle in a camera and take 4 photographs of the atrocities occurring. They are the only known photographs of Auschwitz.
JYVdk TIL that the oldest surviving copy of the Book of Revelations lists the number of the beast as 616 not 666.
D119D TIL that the founders of Starbucks learned the trade from the founder of Pete's, and that he was later critical of them for not roasting to his high standards of quality.
kOEE1 TIL Steven Spielberg was inspired to create a WWII spy-thriller game "Medal of Honor" after he saw his son Max Spielberg play "Goldeneye" on the N64