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TIL Pablo Escobar imported 4 Hippos to Columbia in 1980s that have now grown to a herd of 40 and are impossible to relocate

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8egoL TIL the band Sugar Ray was named after the famous boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard. Their original band name was Shrinky Dix.
VMMXB TIL NASA will etch your name on a microchip and be placed aboard the InSight Spacecraft, which will on Mars in November 2018. Tomorrow is the last day to get your boarding pass!
XEL8X TIL Bananas and Tomatoes are technically berries whilst Strawberries and Raspberries are not. This is because the technical classification of a berry is any fruit derived from a single flower with one ovary, and both raspberries and strawberries stem from flowers with more than one ovary.
Ood57 TIL that Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburg, a relative of the slaughtered Romanov family, gave a blood sample to help genetically ID their remains when they were discovered and exhumed.
nAWG TIL Maj. Gen. Doug Pearson became the only “space ace” when he shot down a satellite orbiting at 345 miles while piloting an F-15 on Sept. 13, 1985.