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TIL: The number of nuclear weapons in the world is actually down from 70,000 in 1986 to around 14,000 today

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9nwM TIL On April 6. 1893 Andy Bowen and Jack Burke were involved in the longest boxing fight in history. The fight lasted 111 rounds (3 minute rounds each), it took 7 hours and 19 minutes until referee John Duffy called “no contest” after both men were too dazed and tired to come out of their corners.
VMWwZ TIL the founder of The North Face died of hypothermia
GePJ TIL - The famous 80’s song Tom’s Diner formed the basis for an algorithm for sound compression that created the MP3, giving the Artist, Suzanne Vega the nickname of ‘The Mother of MP3’
W7JvN TIL that toxicology researchers analysed "George's Marvellous Medicine" from Dahl's book in 2020, and, predictably, found out that George would have murdered Grandmother. The ingestion of the Medicine, even from the censored 2023 edition, would cause "kidney injury, convulsions, cardiac toxicity".
OmL4 TIL that “In God We Trust” was placed on all U.S. bills during the Cold War as a way to express the United States’ anti-communist beliefs