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TIL Bruce Lee Once Said He Thought Muhammad Ali Would “Kill” Him in a Fight

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MeyZa TIL Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin are about 4,000 years old; the oldest fairy tale, The Smith and the Devil, is estimated to be 6,000 years old
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