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TIL When Muhammad Ali was 12 years old, he and a friend went to the Columbia Auditorium. On returning from the show they went back to get their bicycles only to discover that Muhammad Ali’s had been stolen. This incident inspired Ali to become a boxer

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neBYb TIL there is a group of single-celled organisms called Asgard archaea, Lokiarchaeum, named after the Arctic Ocean geothermal vent, Loki's Castle, where they were discovered. They are considered to be the missing link in the evolution of the cell, which separates eukaryotes like humans from bacteria.
PLPw TIL the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office failed to investigate more than 400 sex crimes, at least 32 child molestations and the rape of a 13 year old girl who became pregnant by her uncle.
XEKr6 TIL: One housecat (ever) survived spaceflight. Test animal C-341 later renamed Félix and then Félicette was blasted into a suborbital flight on a French rocket in 1963. Seeking to examine her brain for possible space-induced changes, some weeks after her historic flight scientists euthanized her.
bk9Z TIL that in 1990, a 200-person, .02 sq. mile trailer park in Texas incorporated and became a city just to open a liquor store. Until 2007, Mobile City was the only place in Rockwall county you could buy any kind of alcohol outside of a restaurant.