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TIL Patrick Stewart is a public advocate for “assisted suicide”

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j6emE TIL of British boxer Terry Downes who defeated the legendary “Sugar Ray” Robinson and quipped about the ageing Robinson, “I didn’t beat Sugar Ray, I beat his ghost.”
e0ewb TIL that in 1972, the year before the FAA began requiring passenger/baggage searches, there were 31 airplane hijackings in the U.S.
ANKmB TIL that Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire were responsible for the deaths of about 10% of the global population in the 13th century.
5YdQD TIL that when dinner forks were introduced to Europe in the late Middle Ages, they were considered to be a tool of the Devil and were thus banned by the Catholic Church
LwZp TIL that many common disease causing bacteria are actually harmless bacteria that have been infected by a virus.