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TIL of Micheal Swango an American doctor estimated to have killed 60 patients and colleagues

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16BlW TIL that although the Superfight between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano was simulated (with ketchup being used as fake blood), Ali nonetheless felt legitimately hurt, from some of the dramatised punches that Marciano threw at him.
7rxyO TIL while Victoria Beckham said that she designed a car that she wanted to drive when she took part in creating her own edition of the Range Rover Evoque, Beckham only drove that model of the Evoque 1400 miles in three years, and reportedly sold it because she didn't have an use for it.
b981Z TIL Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the US and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
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4k9bN TIL that Australia voted to add a constitutional age limit of 70 for all judges in federal courts, in 1977