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oBwGo TIL that the Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo) began in the 1930s to smuggle alcohol into Prohibition-era America. They became primarily involved with drug smuggling in the 1980s
d8WNQ TIL a single Chilean Flamingo named "Pink Floyd" escaped a Utah aviary and lived a solitary life at the Great Salt Lake for 18 years, eating brine shrimp and socializing with gulls and swans. Locals unsuccessfully petitioned to have other flamingos released in the area to keep Floyd company.
ADG1w TIL London pays yearly rent for a property to the Queen since 1211 with an axe, a knife, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails.
y89a TIL that rats in Iran grew so big that snipers had to be deployed to combat the cat sized rats.
VJD TIL that Josef Stalin tried to breed ape-men, with human females and male apes