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TIL That the drug lord Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $20 billion foreign debt in order to avoid extradition to the US.

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vPmG7 TIL rare, massive 13 and 17 yr cicada broods containing trillions of individuals which are emerging in the US as we speak, may turn into fungus zombies and have their genitals fall off (a cicada's life is not fair on any level).
wLerJ TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, was the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in 2 hours.
wbWE TIL The United States government has admitted to a past history of forced sterilization of Native American women
nnOb TIL all humans carry genetic material passed down a female line extending back at least 200,000 years to a woman dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve”.
kXM4 TIL that a library in Dublin puts readers in cages to prevent them from walking off with rare books