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TIL Pablo Escobar, The Cocaine Kingpin, said that one of his first illegal enterprises was robbing tombstones from local graveyards, sanding down the names, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers.

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Mdo7 TIL that eating any portion of the human brain can cause Prion disease, which is incurable and comes with a high mortality rate.
DQwng TIL for over 50 years a giant whale terrorised the waters around 6th century Constantinople, sinking ships and generally wreaking havoc.
VM9mG TIL that Ford F-Series Trucks are involved in more fatal accidents than any other vehicle in America, but the 4th cheapest vehicle in the US to insure.
7WZ7 TIL the Placebo Effect varies in strength depending on what color the capsules of the sugar pill are.
GxQ5 TIL that 150,000 condoms were provided to the athletes at the 2012 olympics, enough for each athlete to have protected sex 15 times.