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TIL Muhammad Ali’s speaking rate slowed 16 percent after his 1977 15-round fight against Ernie Shavers

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RlZQ TIL the Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
4O7w TIL Costa Rica has no army, it abolished it in 1949
8a9MZ TIL The Blue Hole is a 120-metre-deep sinkhole, five miles north of Dahab, Egypt. Its nickname is the “divers’ cemetery”. Divers in Dahab say 200 died in recent years. Many of those who died were attempting to swim under the arch. This challenge is to scuba divers what Kilimanjaro is to hikers.
7r91p TIL the Japanese Navy always eat curry on Fridays to help sailors keep track of which day it is.
wGL1 TIL that a fire in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2002 killed 15 school girls. The girls were not allowed to leave the burning building by the state’s religious police because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.