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TIL in 1986 at the age of 20 years old, Mike Tyson surpassed Floyd Patterson's record to become the youngest heavyweight champion in history.

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9YgND TIL zoologist Francis Buckland kept the remains of a cat under his bed at Winchester College, dug up and ate a dead panther from a zoo (declaring the meat "not very good"), and took his pet bear Tigleth Pileser to a meeting at Oxford University dressed in a cap and gown.
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