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TIL the Hippos from Pablo Escobar's private zoo, at Hacienda Napoles, escaped became feral, bred and now terrorise local fisherman in Columbia.

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8n1P TIL - Rick James (“Superfreak”) was in a band with Neil Young, Bruce Palmer (Buffalo Springfield) and Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) before having to serve a year in prison because he was actually AWOL from the navy
yQrY8 TIL Tigers need to be in an environment that mimics nature or they exhibit unnatural stress
JEj4 TIL the Slinky was conceived of in 1943 by Richard James. While working at a shipbuilding company, he watched a torsion spring fall off a table and flip end over end. His wife came up with the name Slinky after looking through the dictionary for a word that described the motion of the spring.
DMZe TIL a translator for the European Commission in Brussels knows 32 languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Russian, East African Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, plus some dead languages like Old Church Slavic.
5GOk TIL All Feature Films Actor John Cazale Appeared in During His Life Won Best Picture, Except One—The Conversation— Which Lost to The Godfather Part II, in Which He Also Appeared