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TIL Pacha an Incan cosmological concept associating the physical world and space with time, and corresponding with the concept of space-time

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GYl4j TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay the entirety of Colombia’s $20 billion debt to avoid extradition to the United States.
JYn4v TIL That on September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.
VM1e8 TIL That in Boston in 1919, a tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, flooding the streets,killing 21 and injuring over 150 people.
KY016 TIL there is a wasp called "Gasteruption jaculator"
p8lBQ TIL The single most destructive bombing in human history was in Japan during WWII, but it wasn't the atomic bombings, it was firebombing raids on Tokyo.