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TIL in 1981 Muhammad Ali Talked a Suicidal Man Off a Ledge

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Yp1Rv TIL A stone circle, thought to be thousands of years old, was discovered in Scotland. After investigation it turned out to be only 20 years old, put there by the previous farm owner.
mXov TIL “Turning a blind eye” is thought to come from Admiral Horatio Nelson disobeying an order to withdraw during a naval battle; allegedly putting a telescope to his blind eye & saying “You know, Foley, I have only one eye - and I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal.”
pYE8A TIL that before alarm clocks were common, people known as "knocker-uppers" were employed to wake workers by tapping on their windows with long sticks.
woVNW TIL 185 out of 210 examinees, or nearly 7 out of 8, passed Harvard's first entrance exam of 1869 and got accepted
p871Z TIL Mark Hamill played Mozart in the play Amadeus. When a movie adaptation of the play was being developed Mark Hamill wanted to audition to play Mozart again. Director Miloš Forman refused to let Hamill even audition for the part because he didn’t think Luke Skywalker should be playing the Mozart.