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TIL Pablo Escobar burned 2 million dollars to keep his daughter warm when she was hypothermic

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epD5g TIL Africa speaks over 2000 languages with an average of 37 languages per country.
KOwYE TIL that Chris Hansen was caught having an affair with a colleague 20 years his junior by a hidden camera and fired from NBC for it.
Zb84 TIL that R. Lee Ermey, the actor who played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, is the only retired US Marine to ever be promoted. He was personally promoted by the Commandant to Gunnery Sergeant, to match his rank in the movie.
ADZd7 When a mosquito bites, it pierces your skin and draws blood with the tip of its straw-like mouth, or proboscis. In the process, the mosquito injects some of its own saliva, which contains an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting around the proboscis and trapping the insect. (Only female mosquitoes, which need the nutrients from the blood to produce eggs, bite.)
lVNN TIL Psychiatrists have redefined “Pathological Grooming” such as skin-picking, hair-pulling, and nail-biting as similar to OCD, and they are considered often to be virtually uncontrollable.