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TIL It took 51 years and 3 amateurs to solve a particular cypher sent by the Zodiac Killer

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xG7w TIL Pablo Escobar had four hippos which, left untended for decades, have been breeding and now there are around 50 wandering an area in northwestern Colombia.
DxpJ TIL: Ballistics tests confirmed a gun registered to Tupac Shakur shot the bullet which killed a 6 year old boy in 1992 during a fight between his crew and an unruly crowd
LQPp TIL the World’s Greatest Living Explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, was thrown out of the SAS for blowing upa movie set, climbed Everest to get rid of his vertigo, did 7 marathons in 7 days a few months after heart bypass surgery, amputated his own fingers and was considered for the role of James Bond.
0wEYN TIL that a healed femur bone (thigh bone), not the clay pot, is considered as the first sign of human civilization.
9ZnD TIL that in December 1840, Abraham Lincoln and 4 other Illinois congressmen jumped out of a window in a political maneuver designed to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank.