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TIL Pablo Escobar spent $2500 a month on rubber bands to hold stacks of bills together

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rR49o TIL that the Portuguese man of war isn’t actually a jellyfish. It’s called a siphonophore, made up of several specialized organisms of the same species. They each perform different functions and can’t survive alone.
Z1ZB TIL the US government forcefully sterilised thousands of native american women until the late 1970s.
BrjQx TIL Michael Jackson was terrified of the real-life fan who inspired the song Billie Jean, after she sent him a letter with a weapon and instructions to kill himself. He kept her photograph to memorize her face, “in case she ever turns up someplace.”
GYBm1 TIL that the irrational fear of palindromes (words or sentences that read the same backwards, i.e. Racecar) is known as Aibohphobia. Ironically, Aibohphobia itself is a palindrome as well.
DkAj Today I learned that the title for Egyptian proctologists literally translates to “shepherd of the anus.”