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TIL: Colombia‘s drug barons are going underwater, with million dollar submarines that can ship up to eight tons of cocaine per load.

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DQdae Today I learned of dark lightning, known also as Terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Dark lightning discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space.
bjlN TIL it would only take ~12 GB to download all ~5,000,000 articles from Wikipedia.
LkwJd TIL Tim Staffell, original member of the band that would become Queen, later worked on the TV adaption of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and made models for Thomas the Tank Engine.
mx0Ao TIL On a planet with ten times the mass of the earth, to reach escape velocity it would be easier to destroy the planet than to build a rocket.
ADQ5l TIL that in 1916, a silent comedy film was made about "Coke Ennyday" a detective with a fondness for cocaine made as a parody of Sherlock Holmes. He wears a bandolier carrying syringes filled with the drug and frequently injects himself with massive amounts of cocaine to solve crimes.