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TIL a common year (aka non-leap year) begins and ends on the same day of the week

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9nwM TIL On April 6. 1893 Andy Bowen and Jack Burke were involved in the longest boxing fight in history. The fight lasted 111 rounds (3 minute rounds each), it took 7 hours and 19 minutes until referee John Duffy called “no contest” after both men were too dazed and tired to come out of their corners.
1DnW TIL that the cartoon, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, won 2 Emmy awards in 2006 and 2007.
xxxw TIL Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer before he was Pope
nWpxG TIL In 1376, the Pope excommunicated the entire Florentine government, banned the city from all religious activity, sanctioned florentine companies abroad by forbiding christians from dealing with them and made it legal for all christians, anywhere, to capture or enslave florentine citizens
XEWV8 TIL that Steve Irwin and his father discovered a species of turtles that can breathe through their cloaca in 1990. It's named after them: Irwin's turtle.