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TIL after Pablo Escobar escaped from prison and was on the run in the jungles of Columbia with his family, it was so damp that he couldn’t find dry kindle to make a fire so he used his money… he burned over $2 Million dollars just to keep him and his daughter warm.

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VgQG TIL a figurine of Hans Solo frozen in carbonite is hidden in each episode of Firefly
wByJ TIL of the “second brain” in humans located in the gastrointestinal tract and called the enteric nervous system. More than 90% of the body’s serotonin lies in the gut, as well as about 50% of the body’s dopamine.
GALWj TIL that there was a person known as Kamehameha the Great who was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and he also is the namesake of Goku's signature move from anime Dragon Ball
VMwGQ TIL Piers Morgan was fired as the editor of a popular British newspaper in 2004 after publishing fake photos of the torture of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers
N4ge TIL During an interview about the casting of Jean-Luc Picard, Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter, “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century?” Roddenberry answered, “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”