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

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D6yD TIL President Carter’s son and Willie Nelson got high together on the roof of the White House.
QYm6 TIL Ladybird Johnson donated money to have wildflowers along all of Texas Highways
PMWO TIL that in the 1970s, General Mills sued an economics professor for making a parody game called “Anti-Monopoly,” but the suit was thrown out because it was discovered that Monopoly was a ripoff of a board game first developed in 1903 called “The Landlord’s Game.”
NXAKP TIL: Foetal cells can remain in the mother's, even embedding on different organs of the mother, for decades, sometimes for a lifetime.
p876A TIL Treason is not only a federal crime in the USA. Just over half of the states have their own treason laws. Of only 30 individuals who have ever been convicted of treason in the USA, 0 federal convictions ended with execution, while 5 of the 6 successful state convictions ended in execution.