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TIL the chronology of fights between Mohammad Ali and Frazier didn't limit to just 3 matches rather there was a fourth match between Ali's and Frazier's daughters in which Ali's daughter won.

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mxmM TIL Sugar Ray Robinson killed a man in the ring. The man he killed was saving up money to buy his mother a house. As a result, Robinson gave the earnings of his following four fights to that man’s mother.
1R74 TIL there was a 1983 diving bell accident that resulted in four divers “violently exploding” when a clamp was incorrectly opened. All the organs, spine and limbs blew out of the divers’ bodies, killing them instantly.
j6n1n TIL the 1st amendment was originally proposed as the ‘Congressional Apportionment Amendment’, initially requiring 1 representative per 30,000 constituents up to a maximum of 50,000.
xJg1 TIL: Twisted Sister did 3,000 club perfomances and sold out the Palladium theater in NYC all without a recording contract or radio airplay. No one in the biz would touch them. TS ended up pressing their own albums and before finally getting a deal with a small UK punk label.
4X9Ro TIL In 1872/3 the so called "Great Epizooic of 1872" spread throughout North America, infecting more than 75% of all horses. While rarely fatal it wreaked havoc in US economy and forced the US-cavalry and the Apache for some time to fight each other on foot. It was one cause for the 1872 Boston Fire