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TIL that Muhammad Ali was officially knocked down four times in his ring career.

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nWjdB TIL that during the Gulf War the coalition forces suffered nearly as many non-combat losses (145) as losses directly related to combat (148 KIA). This number is mainly due to a single C-130H that crashed while transporting 95 Senegalese soldiers.
4XlDo TIL there is a name for a 10,000-sided shape: a myriagon.
k0ve TIL that in 2002 all Arab states agreed to recognize Israel if Israel withdraws from all occupied territories since 1967 and recognize a Palestinian state, which is also known as the two state solution
6EeWY TIL that although Nazi Germany sterilized or murdered 73-100% of all schizophrenics in Germany (about 220K-269K people), there were no long-term effects on subsequent rates of schizophrenia in Germany. In fact, post WWII rates were unexpectedly high.
vPeE7 TIL that the flag of Haiti was created when revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines grabbed a French flag and ripped the white band off. His goddaughter Catherine Flon sewed the blue and red bands back together, creating the first Haitian flag. Flon is widely admired in Haiti today.