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TIL after Pablo Escobar’s death, the 4 hippos he kept as pets have begun to breed and become an invasive species in Colombia

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0dJn1 TIL it was Ben Sliney’s first day as FAA’s National Operations Manager when he ordered the National Ground Stop on Sept. 11, 2001.
4XRJ5 TIL that the US Army never gave the Native Americans smallpox infested blankets as a tool of genocide. The US did inflict countless atrocities against the natives, but the smallpox blankets story was fabricated by a University of Colorado professor.
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