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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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4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
0wONp TIL that there is a book from the 15th century found in Italy that is written in a unknown language, with drawings that show unidentified things, and that nobody has ever been able to understand it.
jNn9N TIL that Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort were related: Tom Riddle's mother--Merope Gaunt--was a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin. Cadmus Peverell was her paternal ancestor. Harry Potter's paternal ancestor was Ignotus Peverell, which makes Voldermort and Harry distantly related.
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