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TIL - That during the peak of Ebola news in 2014 people started to avoid Liberia airport in Costa Rica thinking that it was the country in Africa.

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P1lVg TIL that Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym used by writer Washington Irving in his satirical first novel A History of New York, inspired the name used to describe Dutch settlers, Manhattanites, and a type of baggy trousers, along with the name of the New York Knicks NBA team.
KOY1B TIL While on the run the once drug lord Pablo Escobar burned two million dollars to keep his family warm at an unpowered mountainside hideout.
XrDP TIL Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
xV7mg TIL locusts are not a species. They are actually grasshoppers which have developed gregarious characteristics in suitable environmental conditions forming an organized group
0dMwp TIL The "Pirate Accent" originates from a single actor. Robert Newton exaggerated his natural Cornish accent when he portrayed Blackbeard and Long John Silver in Various Films in the 1950s.