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TIL That Pablo Escobar's hippos are to be sterilized because they are an invasive species in Colombia

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KYZLE TIL that the last Space Shuttle mission carried only 4 astronauts because of the contingency plan to accommodate them on ISS in case the orbiter had to be abandoned
YpR1P TIL A man spent 12 years in a coma but was completely aware and awake the entire time.
R7JY4 TIL that Dolly Parton, as a child slept in a urine soaked bed with several siblings, going on to add in this 1986 interview: “I’ve been aware of sex all my life. I enjoy sex, yeah all my life. Well I mean I got six brothers and cousins and you know all the sisters, kids are curious”
loeEG TIL that it was actually indians who based on historical evidence first invented and used dreadlocks and brought it to the caribbean and introduced it to black people.
X0gJD TIL after John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government.