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TIL Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the military for the Vietnam war for which he was arrested and stripped of his boxing titles. “You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs—and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home?“

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LkLAd TIL that the youngest confirmed world leaders are John I of France and Alfonso XIII of Spain who were both crowned on the day of their birth.
v19AK TIL the original "Echidna" was not an egg-laying mammal, but a legendary half-woman half-snake who was the mother of several Greek monsters, including the Hydra, Sphinx, Chimera, and Cerberus.
XExYk TIL in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua traveled to the International Exposition, where he met Thomas Edison, who had filed a U.S. patent for his light bulb two years earlier. That visit inspired King Kalakaua to bring electricity to Honolulu just 4 years after it was installed in the White House.
OGMbg TIL: USS Fomalhaut was launched 25 January 1941 by Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc., Beaumont, Tex., as Cape Lookout, a Type C1 ship cargo ship. The launch used 7,000 pounds of ripe bananas, which the US Maritime Commission found to be an "efficient substitute" for traditional launching grease.
XEj78 TIL Pope's cannot be an organ ( eyes, kidneys, bone marrow etc.) donor as his body is deemed to sacred to be transferred to ordinary person.