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TIL : Don King, famed boxing promoter stomped one of his employees to death, however he only spent 3 years and 11 months in jail.

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Rd9j TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor’s policy was to not want to make war seem like child’s play
rLAo TIL In 1980 a Centaur skeleton was assembled using the remains of a human and Shetland pony, then displayed as a real artifact in order to challenge student skepticism
rRllM TIL: Color toilet paper was trendy in the past. In the 1950s, people would even coordinate their toilet paper with their bathroom color scheme. It reportedly died down when concerns about the safety of pastel dyes for the skin and the environment gained traction.
yQb5l TIL the latitude/longitude coordinates of 0°N 0°E point to a buoy off the coast of Africa jokingly called "Null Island"
LkKd TIL that Ed O'Neill (guy who played Al Bundy) is also a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu