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TIL 5-division Boxing Champion James Toney claims to have knocked out a young Deion Sanders at football camp over bunk beds.

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n0RB TIL in the 70s, while Watergate was raging, a far more widely affecting scandal was being exposed: COINTELPRO – decades of FBI abuse of power and assassinations against political groups and individuals, incl. Martin Luther King, students, pacifists, women’s rights campaigners and notable Americans.
9X86 TIL: Personal incomes in the US have fallen 10-15% for working age men since the year 2000.
5E6p TIL that human head size, and thus intelligence, sharply increased 12 million years ago when we invented the baby sling, a crucial technological development in our history
MegRm TIL in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to show up at your place, watch a sad video with you until you cry, then wipe your tears for you.
epW6n TIL that maggot therapy is FDA-approved for treating non-healing wounds. Live maggots are applied to consume dead tissue and secrete antimicrobial compounds, aiding the healing process.