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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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D1Geg TIL Because of its massive size, a T-Rex could only run at 12 miles per hour. If it ran any faster, its bones would've shattered.
QjbX TIL in 2003, a website called Scroogle was created by Google critic Daniel Brandt, to allow users to search Google anonymously. It stayed active until 2012, where it was shut down by Brandt due to a combination of throttling of search requests by Google and a DDoS attack.
KYbvB TIL That Rosa Parks sued Outkast in 1999 for defamation
wBJ7 TIL that there are 3000 cities with worse lead levels in their water supply than Flint, MI
eMbE TIL Ontario, a province in Canada has a apology act- “apologies do not constitute an admission of fault”