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TIL Colombia has a hippo problem because drug lord Pablo Escobar's 4 pet hippos escaped after his death

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MeQ5m TIL of the disappearance of Gary Mathias, who after attending a college basketball game w/ 4 friends, was never seen again. His 4 friends were found decaying in/around a remote cabin 20mi. away from their car having died from starvation&hypothermia, despite an ample supply of food/heating materials.
lQxA TIL the Hanging Gardens of Babylon likely existed in the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Assyrian king Sennacherib had a garden matching the Babylon garden descriptions which was built after the Assyrian takeover of Babylon. Nineveh was then referred to as “New Babylon” causing the name discrepancy.
MeZn0 TIL France and Brazil had a "war" over lobsters
5xVQ TIL the “earthy” smell accompanied by rain comes from an organic compound produced by Actinobacteria found in soil
0ayy TIL that Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, was secretly funded by the US Navy which wanted him to find their two sunken nuclear submarines first