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TIL that the first fight between Joe Fraizer and Muhammad Ali was so packed, that Frank Sinatra couldn’t get a seat near the ring.

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p8PAG TIL in 1917, the German and Russian WWI forces stopped fighting each other to launch a joint attack against a pack of wolves that constantly raided them.
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jryN TIL that on this date in 1777, British soldiers ambushed sleeping U.S. soldiers with bayonets, killing or wounding 200. Less than two years later, the American general who was ambushed used the same tactic on the British, killing 94 and capturing nearly 500.