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TIL Muhammad Ali gave his first Olympic medal to a high school teacher who previously said “ you ain’t never gonna be nuthin’”

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xVWm7 TIL the guy on the cover of The Best of Kansas is the abolitionist John Brown
R7beQ TIL a man committed a perfect crime and was caught anyway. While in jail, he investigated how this was possible and discovered a secret new surveillance device the government developed.
yVn48 TIL The U.S. offered land to exiled French Bonapartists in Alabama to grow grapes and olives, but the colony failed due to the settlers' lack of farming skills and unsuitable soil.
JWv TIL declawing a cat is anatomically the equivalent of removing the entire last bone in a human finger at the joint.
evEb TIL in 1986, at the height of apartheid, Glasgow, Scotland changed the name of the square where the South African consulate-general was based to Nelson Mandela Place, forcing the South African attaché to have to write this address if they wanted to receive mail.