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TIL that Muhammad Ali was vehemently anti-interracial marriage

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ljmG TIL in 1909 a 15 year-old boy was accidentally stabbed to death in the insurance office where he worked, trying to evade the birthday kisses of all the office women.
0w87j TIL Christopher Lee was a major Tolkien fan, reading the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy once a year for the majority of his life. He was the only member of the movie cast to have met Tolkien.
yAWw TIL that Perrier mineral water is naturally carbonated under the ground and wells up through a spring already fizzy.
nAb TIL The Japanese yakuza provided disaster relief for both the Kobe and Tohoku earthquakes.
Q66p TIL that the Osage Indians were once the richest per capita people in the world due to oil reserves on their land. Congress then passed a law requiring court appointed “guardians” to manage their wealth. Over 60 Osage were murdered from 1921-1925, their land rights passed to the guardian.