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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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XE5O6 TIL founder and former-CEO of blood test diagnostics firm Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, who has been accused of massive fraud against investors, doctors and patients, is the daughter of a former executive at ENRON, one of the biggest corporate frauds in history.
6A5X TIL that ace Hungarian shooter Károly Takács shattered his right hand in an accident, started practicing with his left hand, won national championship only months later, and still later two Olympic golds
oRODo TIL that the youngest person to summit Mount Everest was just 13 years old while the oldest person to summit was 80 years old.
XeKD TIL that 600 years before Galileo, al-Biruni wrote that the earth rotates on its axis. Unlike Galileo, his ideas were accepted by religious scholars.
GYK8j TIL The YMCA gave Dr Naismith 2 weeks to invent what would become basketball in 1891 in order to have an indoor "athletic distraction" to keep rowdy youth busy in the cold New England winter months