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TIL Muhammad Ali, with his poems, is regarded also as one of the earliest pioneers in Hip Hop

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R7yAl TIL 39th richest person in the world is Li Ka-Shing (!) with $28.9B net worth.
p8ERG TIL that the fourth leading cause of death in the United States is adverse reactions to FDA approved drugs.
rEBe TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
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