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TIL that Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is on a wall instead of on the ground. This is because Ali, a devout Muslim, did not want people stepping on the name "Muhammad".

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R75N8 TIL there are streets in Paris named after each of Napoleon's Marshals of the Empire, his most trusted and skilled commanders. Of the 26 men who served as Marshals, only seven do not have streets named after them. These seven are widely regarded to be traitors to Napoleon, the Republic, and France.
OAWg TIL that when there were no clocks, there were candle clocks that burned a set amount of hours. If you wanted a reminder or alarm, you pushed a nail at the desired time length in the candle and when it melted to that point, the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder alerting you.
AD8A7 TIL There are more multi-cellular zooplankton per square kilometer in the Chukchi Sea than there are stars in the Milky Way and collectively there are plankton than there are galaxies in the observable universe.
95v6 TIL The “polo” shirt was invented by a French tennis player named René Lacoste in 1926. It was designed to be worn with the collar upturned or ‘popped’ to protect your neck from the sun.
gMkQ9 TIL that when "The Flintstones" added the baby Pebbles in 1963, it was originally going to be a boy, until Ideal Toys pointed out that they would sell a lot more merchandise if they made the baby a girl, as baby boy dolls didn't sell well in that era