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TIL that boxing trainer Eddie Futch trained four boxers (including Joe Fraizer), who all defeated Muhammad Ali.

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Eaax TIL that cows brutally murder about 16.5 people each year. “The CDC estimates that about twenty-two people are killed by cows each year, and of those cow attacks, seventy-five percent were known to be deliberate attacks”
JdRj TIL when Mark Wahlberg was 16, “he was charged with attempted murder for beating a Vietnamese refugee with a metal hook, leaving the victim blind. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but served just 45 days.”
QJrWM TIL that the largest terrestrial animal of Antartica is Belgica antartica - a small flightless midge that burrows into snow to survive the harsh temperatures.
jjJj TIL A statue of Queen Victoria was moved one inch on its plinth by a German bomb in 1940. It was otherwise unharmed.
PBEL TIL that both sides of the First Congo War ate pygmies “as though they were game animals.”