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TIL Angelo Dundee confessed tightening the ropes of the ring prior to the Rumble in the Jungle fight between Ali and Foreman, which in a sense facilitated Ali's victory.

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8ap18 TIL that in WW2 a polish doctor helped 8000 jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic. Not risking an epidemic, the Germans quarantined the area instead of sending them to concentration camps.
j94j TIL instead of diapers, Chinese kids wear special pants that allow them to defecate anywhere and everywhere…
BNMr TIL that Lord of the Rings takes place in the real world, and that we are now in the Seventh Age.