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TIL in the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.

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mJVv TIL the most expensive divorce ever cost the husband 2.5 billion dollars
j7Mv TIL that Sweden hosts the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, based around the Ericsson Globe arena in central Stockholm, which acts as the ‘Sun’.
yQEkp TIL the "Serial Stowaway" (Marilyn Hartman) is known for stowing away on 22 commercial airline flights since 2014.
OGMOg TIL that the iconic horses on the Kentucky licence plates in the 1990s were based on a logo of a horse park in Lexington which itself was based on a picture of semi-wild horses taken by a German photographer in the 1960s. The base was withdrawn when the photographer sued for copyright infringement.
Rm14 TIL the pilot and co-pilot of a flight never eat the same meals to lower the risk of food poisoning and endangering the flight.