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TIL The common phrase “You can run but you can’t hide” dates back to a taunt made by boxer Joe Louis during his fight against Billy Conn in 1941

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nenrP TIL That in 2017 a conservative estimate of a 100 million sharks were killed by humans, while only 5 humans were killed by unprovoked shark attacks
1WB7 TIL the term Indian Giver stems from a cultural misunderstanding. Pilgrams thought they were getting gifts. Indians thought they were bartering.
R7aQ TIL- there is a gang of women in India that go after abusive husbands and fight to stop child marriages.
4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.
KYgjB TIL in 1599, when the local Jivaro Indians in Ecuador got tired of enduring the cruel Spanish governor, who heavily taxed gold miners. The Indians caught this lover of gold and poured molten metal down his throat.