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TIL there's a company that will create gift wrapping paper with your face on the wrapper

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woxAW TIL of boxer Billy Graham who held the distinction of not only defeating Sugar Ray Robinson as an amateur, but also of never having been knocked down in 126 fights.
9wxXM TIL that Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas", was not published under Plath's name until 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, eight years after her death.
LV4d TIL that in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation in 25 seconds, operating so quickly that he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers as well. Both later died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality rate.
WjYL TIL: The air in Beijing is so polluted that breathing it does as much damage to the lungs as smoking 40 cigarettes a day.
rR9d1 TIL the word 'drone', in reference to remote controlled aircraft, was coined in 1935 when the pilotless DH.82 Queen Bee was developed and flown over RF for anti-aircraft gun training.