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TIL That while Muhammed Ali was publicly resisting the draft for Vietnam, an activist group took advantage of security guards being distracted by his "fight of the century" with Joe Frazier to break into an FBI office and steal documents proving the FBI's illegal surveillance of Ali and many others

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69ydw TIL The passenger death rate for passenger vehicles in the US is 17 times greater than that of trains and 50 times greater than that of buses
R7kx8 TIL of the Kids For Cash Scandal. 2 judges that accepted money for increasing the population at 2 juvenile detention centers.
BXWk TIL remains found in a peat bog in Florida in 1982 are over 8000 years old - predating the Pyramids by 3500 years.
Lk4kP TIL of the German general Ferdinand Schörner, who at the end of World War II abandoned his army group to fly to Austria and personally surrender to the Americans, all to avoid capture by the Soviets. The Americans handed him to the Soviets.
9PD TIL that athletes can compete as independent Olympians (not under a country’s flag) at the Olympic Games