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TIL Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man off the ledge in 1981 and stopped him from taking his own life

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grVpA TIL trolley refers to trams and not just shopping carts. I had believed for the longest time that the trolley problem referred to shopping carts running over people...
rNepW TIL - In 2000, the first crewed mission to the International Space Station (Expedition 1) launched on October 31. This began continuous human presence in space, with astronauts from NASA and Roscosmos working together aboard the ISS. The collaboration has been ongoing ever since.
dDvG8 TIL that in 2006 the Manually Self-Operated Butt-Kicking Machine was patented to advance the art and expand the science of butt-kicking technologies.
E1V67 TIL that Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, was portrayed in the 2019 alternate history series ‘For all Mankind’ as the first person to walk on the moon
QJlXd TIL in 1946, a black WWII veteran was taking a bus home in uniform, and asked the driver to stop for a bathroom break. The driver called the police, and the local chief of police arrested the man, beat him, and gouged out his eyes with a nightstick. The officer was acquitted by an all-white jury.