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TIL Muhammad Ali was a conscientious objector and refused to enlist during the Vietnam War. He was sentenced to 5 years' prison but never actually went owing to appeals.

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m1XZR TIL in 2001, an American computer engineer emailed Saddam Hussein and received a 10-page personal reply
QJNdd Misleading by "telling the truth" is so pervasive in daily life that a new term has recently been coined to describe it: paltering.
p8mWe TIL that Troop Sport, a popular streetwear brand in the '80s and '90s, went bankrupt because of fake rumors that it was owned by the KKK.
bel4 TIL that the “Green Flash” as seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean film is a real phenomenon.
Owve TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films