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TIL that Muhammad Ali once opened a fish and chip shop in Coventry

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KvB6 TIL that Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, had a baseball-sized growth on his neck. It was benign but could not be removed due to its location. Official photos of the “Eternal President” were therefore taken from a leftward angle to hide the growth. (Candid photos are in comments.)
x9pb TIL Charlie Chaplin would have canned The Great Dictator had he known about the actual horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the time. “Had I known, … I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.”
pagO TIL Burning Mountain in Australia is the site of a coal fire which has been burning for 6,000 years.
mwXv TIL Taser is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle”
eXZ5 TIL that in 1982 the Mayor of Key West, Florida announced the town’s secession from the union, immediately declared war against the US, quickly surrendered after one minute, and applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.