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TIL Nelson Mandela was long time friends with Moammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro.

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KOAZR TIL Bobby Fischer who is considered the greatest chess champion of all time lived the last 16 years of his life as a fugitive after the U.S government put a warrant out for his arrest for violating a trade embargo against Yugoslavia by participating in a chess match there.
Zp5eG TIL In 1932 Sprinter Liu Changchun became the first athlete to represent China in competition at an Olympic Games. Liu's life was made into the 2008 film "The One Man Olympics"
BM8k TIL: FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: Before Da Vinci Code.. Before Angels & Demons.. Dan Brown warned us of the NSA in 1998
Y79kP TIL that Prince used a photo of Dave Chappelle dressed as him and serving pancakes for one of his singles' cover
8wbZ TIL that Dashrath Manjhi from India worked day and night for 22 years to cut through a mountain to create a path from his village to a local hospital.He reduced the distance from 75 km to 1 km .