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TIL of Charley Goldman, a boxing trainer who is credited with turning Rocky Marciano from an apparently unimpressive specimen, into an undefeated world champion.

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rN6Z0 TIL Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”
8dZZ TIL that “kiln” was originally pronounced with a silent “n.” Linguists believe that written descriptions of kilns reached people who had never heard of them before; they assumed the “n” was pronounced, and this mispronunciation took over.
wLbA8 TIL: Smallpox inoculation had been practiced in China, India, Turkey, and East and West Africa, starting as early as 1000 AD. The procedure involved exposing a small wound to pus from the sores of an infected person, to cause a limited infection, which would then provide lifelong immunity.
0Z0v TIL that Kim Ung-yong understood algebra at age 3, by the time he was 2 could speak 4 languages fluently, started attending university at age 4 and graduated at age 8, and has the highest I.Q. (210) in the world.
6x7Y TIL of Cynthia Ann Parker, a settler who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians when she was 10. She lived with them for 24 years, married a chieftain and had 3 children. She was then ‘rescued’ by Texas Rangers when she was 34 but never adjusted back to her old life. She died heartbroken 10 years later.