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TIL about Pablo Escobar's four pet (cocaine) hippos that were left to fend for themselves after Escobar's death in 1993. Well over 40 hippos now exist wild in the region (Colombia) with the population expected to double in the next decade

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X077j TIL about the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a conspiracy that suggests that the AD dating system was fabricated to place Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII at 1000 AD. According to this, the years AD 614 - 911 (the early Middle Ages) never happened.
Gw11 TIL Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can’t drive cars.
65Pl TIL that the wind on neptune is so fast that it breaks the sound barrier
vlP7 TIL that from 1995 to 2000, the winner of the McDonald’s Monopoly grand prize was an insider tasked with producing the game pieces.
7GwX TIL: Aquaman’s archnemesis is autistic