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TIL Northern Ireland does NOT contain the most northern part of Ireland

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Vv60 TIL the iconic photo of Muhammed Ali standing over Sonny Liston, taken 51 years ago today by a 22-year-old Neil Liefer, was only made possible because Leifer was kicked from his preferred ringside spot by a more senior photographer. That photographer is now immortalized between Ali’s legs.
7jYL TIL In 1889 a lion escaped from a traveling show in Birmingham and ran into the sewers. When an angry mob formed, Frank Bostock, the owner secretly snuck another lion out the back. He then returned with the lion clearly visible and was hailed a hero. The escaped lion was still in the sewers.
KR7J TIL of Here Come the Mummies, a funk band that is rumored to have several Grammy winners among the members. They perform wearing full mummy costumes to keep their identities “under wraps”
v144L TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
Rxm7 TIL There is a single hacker who has taken down over 170 Jihadi websites as well as Wikileaks, Lizard Squad, and Westboro Baptist Church.