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TIL boxing legend Floyd Mayweather earned an estimated $275 Million from one single fight.

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a8kkb TIL about Skyquakes, a mysterious phenomenon where people hear loud booming noises but there is no apparent source. Theories include gas escaping the earth, meteoric sonic booms, volcanic eruptions, and you guessed it... earthquakes.
OGX7 TIL the nonsense song that Rafiki sings to Simba in The Lion King is actually a common Swahili children’s song
D1eNp Today I Learned John Wayne likely died from cancer caused by radiation poisoning. 90 other cast and crew also developed cancers after shooting The Conqueror downwind from recent US government nuclear weapons tests.
X0kE6 TIL Rani-ki-Vav is an inverted, underground temple in India from the 11th century going 30m deep through a series of seven levels of stairs and four pavilions. With 1,500 sculptures designed to honor the sanctity of water, it is one of the best known examples of subterranean water architecture
YpnLr TIL that during WW2, the Irish Republican Army attempted to collaborate with the Nazis, and even prepared an invasion plan to assist the German invasion of Northern Ireland.