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TIL that even though Enron went bankrupt in spectacular fashion, one of its top executives, Lou Pai, walked away with $280,000,000 and at one point was the second largest land owner in Colorado.

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v10a7 TIL of St. Martin de Porres - the Catholic patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony. He was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan de Porres and Ana Velázquez, a free woman of African-Native American descent.
D0vj TIL: Notorious KKK Leader Was Once Caught With a Black Male Prostitute
pDmb TIL the 99 cheese pizza from TMNT is real.
1al8D TIL : PABLO ESCOBAR'S son says his father "Worked for the CIA selling cocaine"; (The CIA) “were practically his partners,” which allowed Escobar to defy the law, and gave him nearly the same power as a government.; Escobar smuggled 15 Tonnes a day into the USA, Making $420 Million per week.
gMOLD TIL In 1996, Taco Bell duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell