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TIL A Life-Size Replica Of The USS Enterprise Was Almost Built In Vegas

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gLp8 TIL after Muhammad Ali had won his match against George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Africa, he was asked by a reporter what he thought of Africa. Ali responded, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”
gMv7A TIL that the Japanese used houseflies coated in a bacterial slurry to spread cholera in China and kill an estimated 410,000 people during WWII.
0dwwL TIL that pioneering physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was one of the first women to publish articles in medical journals. Her last publication was titled "Descriptions of the Early Symptoms of the Meningeal Tumor Compressing the Cerebellum. From Which the Writer Died. Written by Herself."
JYmol TIL there is a town in New Mexico named "Truth or Consequences". They changed it from "Hot Springs" in 1950 to win a radio contest.
DQeAJ TIL Beauty and the beast was written to help girls accept arranged marriages