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TIL without Lucile Ball, there would have been no Star Trek or Mission Impossible.

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jjOX TIL that of all the 14,748 homicides in the US in 2010, roughly 43% of the victims were African-American, a group who only make up 13% of the population; furthermore, a majority of the victims were young black males, while the perpetrators were similarly young black males.
k8DB TIL The world’s most massive known organism, a 13 million pound Quaking Aspen clone colony in Utah named Pando, is dying.
oZ4E TIL Anyone in the US Military system can send classified evidence of wrongdoing to their congressional representative if reporting it up their chain of command fails to produce results
kga7 TIL when evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane was asked by some theologians what could be inferred about the mind of the Creator based on his scientific work, he responded “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”
W7Ee8 TIL that Muhammad Ali insulted his British opponent Henry Cooper before their 1963 bout. Cooper proceeded to give Ali a punishing fight and knocked him down at one point. Afterwards, Ali conceded that Cooper had given him the fight of his life.