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TIL Each year, Pablo Escobar wrote off $2.1 billion (10%) of the cartel's money because rats would eat it in storage

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16AwD TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.
pgV8 TIL that drug lord Pablo Escobar had an estimated net worth of $30 billion by the early 1990s, equivalent to about $55 billion in 2016.
woZKP TIL in 1969 Led Zeppelin, after the Seattle Pop Festival alongside Vanilla Fudge, stayed in the Edgewater Inn where you can rent fishing poles, and fish out your room window. Allegedly, the band pleasured a willing groupie with a shark, and Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge recorded it on an 8mm camera.
x61o1 TIL that famous Egyptologist Howard Carter's gravestone has a quote from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, an artifact that he discovered. It reads "May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness."
4XwGg TIL Hermann Göring's brother strongly opposed the Nazi party, and forged his brother's signature so people could leave the country. Once, he joined Jews who had to scrub the streets, so the SS officer stopped the activity in order not to humiliate Hermann Göring.