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TIL that the worlds fastest KO in boxing happened just 4 seconds after the match started…

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W7JO8 TIL that Allianz (one of the world’s largest insurers) insured Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz and in 1933 Hitler’s cabinet included the head of Allianz
E1rnd TIL bout Emma Haruka Iwao, a Japanese computer scientist who this year broke the record of most digits of Pi calculated, at 31.4 trillion.
loV9r TIL in 2000 a man attempted to hijack a Philippine Airlines flight, yet after being denied access to the cockpit robbed the passengers at gunpoint before jumping out of the plane to his death attempting to use a parachute he made himself out of nylon and curtains.
Wk7JB TIL that the original TRON movie didn't win any special effects awards because the Motion Picture Academy thought they "cheated" by using computer graphics.
6EOYY TIL In 1960 between 14-55 million people died of starvation in China due to famine and human error, this wasn't known to the English-speaking world until 1993.