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Til that former middleweight world champion, Carlos ‘Escopeta’ Monzon, finished his 14 year career on an 80 fight unbeaten streak spanning 13 years

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16p7d TIL about Otto Esche's attempts to import Bactrian camels to Nevada to transport salt across the Sierra Nevada. Silver miners and their animals hated the camels so much that "Virginia City, Nevada, passed an ordinance outlawing camels on the town streets except between midnight and dawn."
awevb TIL Car and Driver testing revealed that the Lincoln Continental Mark V was quieter than the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and had better city fuel economy.
PY0Jg TIL DNA testing showed Subway Sandwiches' chicken was only 50% meat, the rest was soy. The testing was done at a University forensic lab. Subway vehemently denied the data.
eyXk TIL that while Steven Spielberg was watching Jurassic Park audition videos at home, Ariana Richards’ sounded so terrified on her recording that Spielberg’s napping wife jumped up to make sure her children were okay. Richards got the part.
yQlW8 TIL that the proverb “curiosity killed the cat” was originally “care killed the cat”. In this instance, “care” meant “worry” or “sorrow for others”. The earliest mention of this proverb was in Shakespeare and it went unchanged for around 300 years. It suddenly changed in the early 20th century.