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TIL The Easter Island Statues (Moai) have bodies

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XEXr8 TIL Pablo Escobar, The Cocaine Kingpin, said that one of his first illegal enterprises was robbing tombstones from local graveyards, sanding down the names, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers.
kJ8ed TIL intranasal capsaicin has been shown to be an effective remedy for migraines. Side effects include temporary burning and tear production.
ZdYo TIL Flight recorders (Black boxes) from military planes float. From commercial planes? they Sink.
1mO8 TIL Arab and Somali merchants tricked the Romans and Greeks into thinking cinnamon came from Somalia, when in reality, they were exploiting them by importing it from India and selling it to North Africa and Europe for far higher prices.
D1dlD TIL of the Night Witches, a female only Soviet bomber regiment during World War 2. They would fly high up in their quieter WW1 bombers, cut their engines, and bomb the German front line in the middle of the night. This earned them the nickname "Nachthexen" by the Germans.