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TIL Nelson Mandela was a heavyweight boxer in his younger years. He continued to train while he was in prison.

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oBM5E TIL U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent American combat troops to Russia during the Russian Revolution to protect arms meant for the newly-collapsed Eastern Front, as well as to rescue 56,000 Czech soldiers allied with the Triple Entente who became stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
rR1w1 TIL as much as 39% of office workers masturbate at work.
lR85 TIL Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is the only person to ever win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
QNbPM TIL that the last burial in Tombstone's famous Boothill cemetery (resting place of the dead from the OK Corral) wasn’t until 1953, of a man whose ashes were sent from California COD.
RD78 TIL The CIA invested over 25 million dollars in a specially trained and equipped cat who should spy on the soviets. It was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately after being released.