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TIL there’s a German Sesame Street

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JYQZ8 TIL that boxer Jimmy Doyle, who died fighting Sugar Ray Robinson for the Welterweight title in 1947, challenged Robinson to the fight in order to buy his mother a house. After Doyle's death, Robinson gave the earnings from his next four fights to Doyle's mother so she could buy that house.
80kP TIL according to NASA, the use of nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million net deaths worldwide between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage.
4X5gg TIL The 97% of Americas land area considered "rural" contains nearly a fifth of Americas population.
0d6ly TIL the Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse
R5Kpl TIL that Malaysian Malays must be a Muslim according to it’s government’s constitution