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TIL Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, an American physician and Nobel Prize winner, was charged of child molestation, including that of the children brought home from research trips to live with him.

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BDNx TIL Muhammad Ali, with his poems, is regarded also as one of the earliest pioneers in Hip Hop
kO06B TIL that during the run-up to the Gulf War, Muhammad Ali travelled to Iraq and personally secured the release of 15 American hostages being detained by Saddam Hussein, despite the US Government and press condemning the mission and Ali as 'another egomaniacal celebrity out of his depth'.
BgyVe TIL of the 155 passengers on the 2009 Hudson River plane crash, only 10 were found to have found or used their life vests correctly
PBbe TIL A 13 year old was arrested for burping and laughing in gym class because of a New Mexico statute stating it is a misdemeanor to disrupt school activities.
69Q77 TIL - That avocado seeds are so large because they depended on extinct megafauna to eat and disperse them.