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TIL US Representative Cassius Clay survived an assassination attempt, was shot in the chest, killed his attempted murderer with a bowie knife, threw him over an embankment, and continued the debate he was having

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bYgE TIL in almost every adaptation of Dora the Explorer outside the US and UK, Dora teaches English, not Spanish.
X0aZP TIL that the largest city in the ancient mediterranean was a Greek colony called Sybaris which held up to 300,000 inhabitants, the city was destroyed in 510 BC and was lost to history until its ruins were rediscovered in 1932.
8a40Z TIL LL Bean (a retailer) ended its lifetime return policy due to abuse of the program. An increasing number of people purchased products from Goodwill or Salvation Army in order to return them, to get better products or gift cards.
0dkxv TIL: John Von Neumann learned an entire 7 year medical program in 2 weeks, can divide 8 digit numbers and converse in Greek at age 6, worked on the Manhattan Project, and published 150 papers in his life. Colleagues claim if he lived longer, the world would be drastically different.