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TIL of the brutal match between Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan. Benn was the underdog and was knocked down within the first minute, but he would turn the match around leaving McClellan with injuries that would end his career and leave him permanently disabled.

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VMyG4 TIL South Park character ‘Towelie’ begun on a boat trip the creators took; on which, people were constantly saying: “don’t forget to bring a towel”. Becoming more aware of how merchandised and exploited their creations had become, they then decided to satirically create the “worst character ever”.
VBXMZ TIL that in 2013 baseball great Mike Piazza appeared in a production of the Miami City Ballet whose school his daughter attended. Piazza said he did this in an attempt to raise the profile of ballet among sports fans.
e0VAE TIL in the first draft of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail was discovered at Harrods department store, at the Holy Grail counter.
PYgjn TIL that during a Communist Party conference in 1937, following a speech by Stalin, the audience began to clap and carried on for 11 minutes, with no-one daring to be the first to stop. The first person to stop was a paper factory director who was arrested that night and sent to prison for 10 years.
dDe5Z TIL that every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland has to have one copy kept at the British Library. It gets about 8,000 new books every day, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space annually, and stores over 200,000,000 titles.