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TIL Mary Magdalene was wrongly labeled as a prostitute

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GAyvJ TIL that Los Pepes, a vigilante group designed to combat Pablo Escobar, was themselves funded by rival drug cartels (notably the Cali Cartel) and had links themselves with law enforcement.
kO7yW TIL Prince Ali Ben Hussein of Jordan set out on horseback together with 14 Circassian riders in 1998 to Circassia (Russia). They followed the trail of the mass Circassian exodus in reverse. His goal was to make it possible for Circassians to return to their ancestral homeland.
BgL6k TIL That in the United States people weigh the least shortly before Thanksgiving
1X78 TIL Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.
8e1Ka TIL Conch is pronounced ‘Konk’. Thought it was ‘Conch’ this whole time.