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TIL In 1990 Muhammad Ali went to Iraq and negotiated the release 15 United States civilians being held captive by meeting personally with Saddam Hussein

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PYo8L TIL Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to be accepted at a medical school in the US, because the students thought her application was a prank from a rival school and voted to let her attend.
vPlZB TIL that in 1999, Jim Henson’s children bought Charlie Chaplin’s historic 1917 studio in Hollywood for $12.5M as the new home of The Jim Henson Company. Once Chaplin’s and briefly Hanna-Barbera’s first studio, it later housed A&M Records. A Kermit statue as Chaplin’s Tramp now stands at the entrance
JYLkQ TIL they make bayonets for more than just rifles and shotguns
O16a TIL New Mercedes-Benz cars will play a short blast of white/pink noise just before an unavoidable crash, forcing the occupant’s ears to turn off for a moment, preventing the hearing loss normally caused by the crash itself or airbags.
oBGYL TIL Ainu people are indigenous to Hokkaidō, Japan. They have their own religion, language, and culture. Now fewer than 100 speak the language.