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TIL When Muhammad Ali fought in 1974, it is estimated that 1 billion people watched his fight, with the world population being 4 billion at the time, that's one quarter of humanity watching him fight.

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m1KDP TIL that the Soviet Mars 3 lander was the first spacecraft to attain a soft landing on Mars in 1971, 26 years before the first successful mission of NASA's Sojourner in 1997. It worked, however, only for 110 seconds including 20 seconds of data transmission, a partial gray image with no details.
8axv4 TIL of prominent Mafia Capo and hitman Gergory Scarpa. He contracted of AIDS after receiving a blood transfusion from his close friends and family. He refused the blood from the hospital blood bank because he feared that the blood might have come from blacks. The AIDS claimed his life 2 years later.
VMA58 TIL that due to contrary belief, "The Wolf of Wall Street" does not actually contain the most uses of the word "fuck" in a film. (569 times). That honor actually goes to "Swearnet: The Movie", a Canadian comedy about the Trailer Park Boys creating their own uncensored network (935 times).
E1ZLX TIL that the first two women to climb the Matterhorn did so in skirts and the third, Annie Smith Peck, was nearly arrested as she was the first to do so in pants.
xMjD TIL of “SLAM”, a cancelled nuclear ramjet missle that could carry up to 16 thermonuclear warheads, travel for months nonstop, spew radiation wherever it went, and flew at tree top levels, killing anyone it would fly over