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TIL the Soviet Union made a Space Shuttle remarkable like the US’s counterpart

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l5vK TIL that there is a herd of nearly 40 hippos living freely in Colombia after the private zoo of Pablo Escobar was abandoned and its 4 original hippos reproduced.
vRX8 TIL that in the US trial by combat is still technically an alternative to civil cases
4XEDg TIL Zimbabwe's bank balance was a total of just $217 at the start of 2013
M9b8 TIL that while attending Harvard in 1959, the “Unibomber” Ted Kaczynksi participated in a study where he was subjected to a “purposely brutalizing psychological experiment,” which some lawyers attribute some of his future emotional instability and dislike of mind control.
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