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TIL Muhammad Ali managed to talk a suicidal man out of jumping to his death after police and psychologists had failed.

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ANAWB TIL scientists discovered lipopeptides that kill microbes so efficiently they named them after Keanu Reeves. Just as Keanu was extremely deadly he was in his films, ‘keanumycins’ are devastating to human-pathogenic fungi and plant fungal diseases.
wL0GW TIL on June 3, 1980, seven tornadoes touched down in or near Grand Island, Nebraska
eNZn TIL Prior to River Phoenix’s death, he had been cast in Interview With The Vampire. After his passing, Christian Slater replaced him and donated his entire salary for the film to Phoenix’s two favorite charities.
4XKw TIL: the Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System
OoA67 TIL that, Nepalese Gurkha Tul Bahadur Pun, recipient of the Victoria Cross during WWII, had his application for settlement in the UK initially denied on the ground that he had "failed to demonstrate strong ties with the UK."