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TIL Mike Tyson became a boxer because a bully killed his pigeon.

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neXl9 TIL The title character of Edward Bulwer-Lytton‘s 1828 novel Pelham, dandy aristocrat Henry Pelham, wore only black evening wear. The novel’s popularity resulted in black becoming the real life standard color for men’s evening formal wear, which it still is nearly 200 years later.
ADpv7 TIL that in the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus and the Crucifixion, Jesus is shown as a donkey. The image is a Roman graffito scratched on a wall in Rome somewhere in the 2nd century, apparently to mock Christians.
PrdG TIL of Ming the Clam that, when discovered, it was the oldest living animal ever discovered…until the Scientists observing the clam killed it.
4X6W5 TIL: Donkey Kong not developed by Nintendo but rather a subcontracting company that also made Sega's Congo Bongo and Zaxxon. They successfully sued after Nintendo use their source code to create Donkey Kong Jr. without them.
X5N6 TIL Germany mandates all drivers to come to the rescue of an accident victim unless there is already an ambulance present. “If there is an accident, a driver is obliged to stop and help, whenever and to the degree to which it is possible”