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TIL that Venezuela is one of the most violent places on earth with a person being murdered every 21 minutes.

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ep4jg TIL there is a population of 100+ wild Hippos in Colombia, first introduced by druglord Pablo Escobar for his private zoo
N7g71 TIL that Neanderthals buried their dead, used bone tools before us and probably made the first cave paintings
neOjY TIL there were 53 extras in the 1993 film Philadelphia with AIDS or were HIV positive, and 43 of them had died by the end of 1994. During his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor, Tom Hanks paid tribute to the courage and humanity of one extra named Mark Sorensen.
VMR6B TIL : In France asking the race of a person is forbidden in most contexts (census, employment, university, ...) and statistics based on race are forbidden.
JYvKm TIL about the Gordian Knot, a supposedly impossible knot to untie. An oracle declared that whomever opened the knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great, unsuccessful at loosening the knot, simply sliced it in half with his sword, fulfilling the prophecy.