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TIL Pablo Escobar’s personal hitman, John J. Velásquez, responsible for 3500 murders, was released from jail in 2014 and is now a YouTube personality with 250,000 subscribers.

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p8Q4G TIL Tom Holland, who played the eponymous character in Spider-Man: Homecoming, actually attended The Bronx High School of Science, which Peter Parker's school was based on, for a few days to prepare for his role as Spider-Man.
KLK6 TIL Diet soft drinks have significantly more caffeine than their regular versions. Diet Coke for example, has 30% more caffeine that regular Coke.
R7Q71 TIL about the Alnwick Garden which is a deadly attraction which houses over 100 plant species of varying degrees of toxicity
69oe8 TIL about 70,000 years ago Scholz's Star passed through the Oort Cloud affecting the orbits of the planets in our solar system.
1Pw8 [TIL] Director James Cameron reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. He is the first person to accomplish the trip solo. The data he collected resulted in interesting new finds in the field of marine biology, including new species of sea cucumber and squid worm.