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TIL A Boxer Named Joe Walcott coined the phrase The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall

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69vwY TIL in 1999 Gaston Glock, inventor of the Glock pistol, suspected Charles Ewert, his closest adviser had been embezzling funds. Glock confronted Ewert, who then hired an assassin named Spartacus, to murder Glock who was able to fight back, by punching the assassin until he collapsed on top of Glock.

g5R7 TIL Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as 'knave girls’ and females were 'gay girls’. Equally, a boy could be called a 'knave child’ and a girl a 'maiden child’.

neBP9 TIL that the game craps is called craps because the name derives from the French word crapaud, meaning toad, where players would squat down in the streets like toads

v1orK TIL a science teacher from rural Kenya who donates most of his salary to help poorer students was crowned the world’s best teacher in 2019 and awarded a $1,000,000 prize, beating 10,000 nominations from 179 countries

R71oj TIL that people go to restaurants to eat diseases for fun.