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TIL Pablo Escobar spent $2500 per month on rubber bands to hold stacks of bills together

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W7dro TIL that Morgana Le Fay, who is most commonly known as a dark sorceress and the archnemesis of Merlin, was instead depicted in the earliest Arthurian lore as a kind and benevolent witch
x6BD0 TIL about Roopkund also called Mystery Lake or Skeleton Lake, it is widely known for the hundreds of human skeletons found at the edge of the lake. The human skeletal remains are visible at its bottom when the snow melts.
wor1o TIL It’s nearly impossible to open an emergency door mid-flight on a plane due to the ~24,000 pounds of force needed to do so.
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