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TIL after Muhammad Ali had won his match against George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Africa, he was asked by a reporter what he thought of Africa. Ali responded, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”

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7arx TIL Pixar flew a rep out to a 10 year-old girl’s home with a DVD copy of ‘Up’ before it was released because it was her dying wish to see the film. She died 7 hours later.
9Y8n6 TIL that in Oklahoma there exists a ghost town so polluted from lead mining that leftover minerals have caused the rivers to turn red. Children who went swimming in the arsenic-filled water thought they were just getting sunburnt - in reality, they were being covered in chemical burns.
RAnQ TIL Yale university’s class of ‘54 at their reunion raised $375,000 with the idea to invest it in a risky portfolio that grew 37% per year to $90 million, which they donated to the university.
gMDj8 TIL The La Danta temple in the Mayan city of "El Mirador" measures approximately 72 metres (236 ft) tall from the forest floor, and considering its total volume (2,800,000 cubic meters) is one of the largest pyramids in the world (pyramid of Cheops volume of 2,600,000 cubic meters).
j6NXR TIL That Harold Ross — co-founder and editor of The New Yorker magazine — dropped out of school at 13. He edited every issue of the magazine from the first until his death—a total of 1,399 issues.