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

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GYgNj TIL that there are large shipwrecks buried deep under the cornfields of Kansas.
OxAR TIL that despite making up less than 5% of the world’s population, Americans consume 80 percent of the the world’s opioid painkillers and 99 percent of the global supply of hydrocodone, the active ingredient in Vicodin.
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poAN TIL the ‘ghost orchid’ has no leaves or stem, and is simply a system of roots when it is not flowering.