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TIL: Outside the ring, Muhammad Ali attained success as a spoken word artist, where he received two Grammy nominations. He also featured as an actor and writer, releasing two autobiographies. Ali retired from boxing in 1981 and focused on religion, philanthropy and activism.

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WaEL TIL in an act of rare serendipity, the longest eclipse to occur in several hundred years coincided with the development of the supersonic Concorde. So naturally, astronomers chartered the plane to “[chase] the eclipse across the Earth at twice the speed of sound.”
wkVM TIL it is estimated that at any given time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk. That means about 50 million people are drunk right now.
nvV7 TIL in 2011 a Russian man who attempted to rob a beauty salon was beaten into submission by the female owner, who is a black belt in karate, and kept as a sex slave for three days.
ep4A5 TIL: "Oreology" and Oreologist" are actual scientific terms. which studies the flows and fractures of Oreos and whether they can be evenly split in a way that the creme filling is equal. PhD candidates even invented an "Oreometer". The study led people to be familiar with rheology, the actual field.
0Nep TIL a game company called Stab Yourself made a sequel to Tetris called Not Tetris 2. The game features “realistic physics”, meaning that the blocks have fluid movement and are not confined to the grid, often resulting in the game board becoming an impossible-to-clear mess.