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TIL Pablo Escobar (A Columbian Drug Dealer) spent over $1000 a week on rubber bands, just to wrap his stacks of cash

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o9J8 TIL that only 5% of all the slaves from the Atlantic Slave Trade came to the USA. Most went to S. America and the Caribbean.
9YjEM TIL that the British folk hero king arthur actually fought against the English. In the tale of king Arthur, he is a general and king of the Britons, who were the native Celtic people of England. He fought against the Anglo Saxons, who would go on to beat the Britons and found the country of England.
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