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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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e0Zk TIL According to University of California, the world’s servers processed 9.87 Zettabytes of information in a single year. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 GigaBytes!
OoxJX TIL Prince’s official 1987 “Black Album,” was supposed to be his hardest/most aggressive effort. Before its release, he withdrew the album, after a bad ecstasy experience — one which led him to believe that he’d be committing an act of evil if he unleashed such dark-sounding music upon the world.
nQrr TIL Mark Twain, noted abolitionist and women’s rights activist, paid for the schooling of black people, including paying one man’s tuition for Yale Law School.
P11jw TIL the office cubicle was created by designer Robert Propst for Herman Miller and released in 1968 under the name "Action Office II". It was meant to encourage spontaneous conversation and idea sharing.
MerLB TIL that after being shot 14 times in the St Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 victim Frank Gusenberg told police "No one shot me" and died three hours later.