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TIL that the methods Mickey Goldmill used to train Rocky Balboa, were based on those used by Rocky Marciano’s trainer Charley Goldman.

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R4Gw TIL In 1906, after 2 years of digging the Hudson River Tunnel, workers for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company connected Manhattan’s West Side with Weehawken, NJ. They met in the middle of the Hudson, completing the tunnel, and the two ends were only off by 1/16 of an inch.
e0L8L TIL Population density in Europe is just 34 people/sq km. At 426 people/sq km, England is the most overcrowded large nation in Europe.
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