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TIL Floyd Mayweather accused Manny Pacquiao of wanting to fight him due to money problems. Pacquiao responded by challenging him to donate ALL their proceeds from their fight (estimated to bring in around $400,000,000) to charities around the world. Mayweather said no.

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J1vaQ TIL Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun)
R54O8 TIL that football legend Pele was banned from playing for a non-brazilian team by a presidential law declaring him a 'national treasure'
WAko TIL: America created the country of Liberia for newly freed black slaves to be sent to.
oVdA TIL that a popular 17th century Chinese concoction of pickled fish & spices called “kê-chiap” was picked up by the English explorers. The English settlers took it with them to the American colonies. This concoction became quite popular and we know it today as Ketchup.
neKDP TIL there was a successful "real life" demonstration of driverless automobile technology over 60 years ago in Lincoln, Nebraska. Broader implementation stalled due to a lack of interest from other states in funding the necessary infrastructure.