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TIL the Cali Cartel once planned to assassinate Escobar by air bombing him with a privately owned jet fighter

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rREny TIL that C.S. Lewis nominated J.R.R. Tolkien for the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was rejected on the grounds that his writing "has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality."
xVkbB TIL After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, his wife Edith de facto ran the Executive Branch for the remainder of his second term.
X0n7R TIL that Gaddafi survived a US air strike in 1986 thanks to the italian government warning him before the attack.
XEdgk TIL that in 1984 a group of paleontologists discovered a 50,000-Year-Old Bison frozen in the permafrost in Alaska and consumed part of its neck meat. They described it as tasting like mud but smelling like beef and mushrooms.
9wpwD TIL of Peter Bergmann, aka the Irish Somerton man, a mysterious man who was found dead on a beach in Sligo, Ireland in 2009 with no ID, no documentation and no money, who had given a fake name and address at the hotel he was staying. He has never been identified.