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TIL Pablo Escobar held Hector Lavoe & his band hostage because they refused to keep playing at his party. They were locked in a room that they somehow escaped from, and had to run into the jungle barefoot until they found a road and a taxi to take them back to their hotel.

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nexQo TIL the floor in the music video for Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity never moved. The entire set was put on wheels, with the camera attached to one wall. Movers would yell NORTH! and Jay Kay would have to dance corresponding to the movements of the set, giving the illusion of moving with the floor.
yVy6l TIL 💥 GRB 221009A nicknamed BOAT • Brightest Of All Time • was the most powerful event ever recorded by humankind. It was a gamma-ray burst detected on October 9, 2022 ~ 2 billion light-years away and released 10,000 times the energy our sun will produce over its lifetime
rRZbe TIL that in the early 1940s a Mexican scientist named Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena created a color television system some considered better than any American system at the time. His work made it possible in the 1970s for NASA to transmit color photos of Jupiter from the Voyager satellite.
0dPAv TIL that with a population of 170 million people, Bangladesh is the most populous country to have never won a medal at the Olympic Games.
G7jJ TIL that after the great Chicago fire, England donated a library’s worth of books to replace the ones that burned. What England didn’t know, however, is that Chicago did not have a library before the fire.