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TIL when drug lord Pablo Escobar’s personal zoo was left abandoned after his death, four hippos escaped into the wilds of Colombia; their numbers have since grown to around 40.

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X09wR TIL that the term "Virgin Mary" is based on a mistranslation of the Hebrew word "almah" (young woman) into the Greek word "parthenos" (virgin) in Isaiah 7:14, influencing Christian doctrine of the virgin birth.
d8ZRE TIL of Taylor Guitars who purchased the last remaining liberty tree after it fell from Hurricane Floyd and made some 400 special edition guitars from the wood. They also raised 14 seedlings from the tree and donated a tree to each of the original 13 colonies and one to the White House.
9YVGp TIL that nearly every tall, skinny, awkwardly moving horror monster was played by one guy. This includes the leper from It, the titular character from Mama, the Crooked Man from the Conjuring, and even one of the white walkers from Game of Thrones
xV1lw TIL that Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle attended a dinner party held by an editor looking for content. They each promised to contribute to his magazine. The results of that evening? The Picture of Dorian Gray and the second, franchise-cementing Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four.
5Yjpn TIL baseball announcer Phil Rizzuto publicly maintained he was tricked by Meatloaf when he recorded "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and did not know the song was about sex. But Meatloaf states Rizzuto did know the truth, but felt like he had to deny it after being confronted by his parish priest.