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TIL That Muhamed Ali once convinced Saddam Hussein to free 15 hostages

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QJDdE TIL the word "robot" was coined for a 1920 Czech play about a robot rebellion (which ends poorly for the human race). The word comes from the Czech "robota" meaning "forced labor".
8eMYK TIL Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, is an activist group founded by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and others, shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979, that advocates against the use of nuclear energy.
E7W0 TIL Dung beetle is the strongest creature in the world.It can pull 1,141 times their own body weight.
WDao TIL of the Camden bench. Its design, a form of ‘hostile architecture,’ deters people from sleeping or skateboarding on it. Its makers call it “an inclusive seat encouraging social interaction.”
M7JbW TIL Juliane de Fontevrault, the illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, tried to kill him with a crossbow after he permitted the blinding of her daughters, his grandchildren, who were hostages at the time.