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TIL Carly Simon is an heiress of Simon & Schuster

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v1KO4 TIL of Virginia Apgar who invented the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child, and ended up saving countless lives.
9wWb6 TIL that after moving from New York to Georgia, a boy wore a "Hempstead NY 516" shirt to his new school. Believing that the shirt was a marijuana reference, the school pulled him out of class until he persuaded officials to check online for proof of his former hometown's existence.
epwZJ TIL in 1976 Muhammad Ali fought a MMA match against Antonio Inoki in Tokyo, Japan. Billed as The War Of The Worlds. The fight ended in a draw.
bON9 TIL that Chef Gordon Ramsay originally aspired to be a professional soccer player, but then suffered a knee injury that he never fully recovered from. He then decided to follow his already growing interest in culinary education so he wouldn’t be known as “the football player with the gammy knee”.
OoZne TIL Syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia infection rates are at their highest level since the CDC began keeping track of chlamydia cases in 1984.