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TIL Muhammad Ali once appeared in a DC comic book. He knocked out Superman to save him from aliens.

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jNKeX TIL of the "The Norwegian Rocket Incident", when in 1995, Russian officials briefly misinterpreted a Norwegian scientific rocket to be a nuclear attack. It showed the dangers of accidental nuclear war even when the threat of military confrontation between the US and Russia was at an all-time low.
lZm7 TIL the Des Moines Register printed pictures of the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing on its front page the day Timothy McVeigh was executed and didn’t name him.
lbDV TIL there is no scientific evidence that Chiropractic medicine has any medical benefit.
xVWPg TIL the South Korean authorities have already created designations for North Korean highways to bring them under their own system in case of reunification.
J1B9l TIL that during World War II, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Cohen was selected by General Patton to organize a raid to rescue Patton's son-in-law from a German camp; Cohen was prevented from leading the raid due to hemorrhoids. Patton personally examined Cohen and remarked, "that is some sorry ass."