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TIL that boxers have the shortest lifespan among athletes

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kJ0E1 TIL Rolex is owned by a charitable foundation and pays no corporate tax
r8Wd TIL Philip II (father of Alexander the Great) threatened Sparta with “if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.”. The Spartans simply replied with “if.”. neither Philip or Alexander attempted to capture the city.
6Oam TIL that Adolf Hitlers father beat him severely every day. When his father found out that he was planning to run away, he beat him so hard that he went into a coma for days - his family unsure if he was going to live
NXOJ TIL that Clerks was originally rated NC-17 solely because of its graphic dialogue, until Alan Dershowitz (Harvard Law Professor and major civil rights advocate) convinced the MPAA to lower it to Rated-R
wL6LW TIL of 'Sea-lioning' - a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity