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TIL Muhammad Ali fought in an early version of MMA

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6EnaY TIL that in 2004, Iran allowed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to be released in the country because it contained several uses of the word "Bismillah", which means "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in Arabic.
OGBOg TIL When a man in New York needed a heart transplant from a donor in Oklahoma, the hospital reached out to the US Air Force to help with transportation. The donor heart was transported across the country in two hours on an F-111 fighter jet. The operation was a complete success.
MrvB TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
EYlV TIL that while Shawshank Redemption never won an Academy Award, the movie Speed won 2.
Mwl0 TIL: That Samuel L. Jackson has a slight stutter. To help himself avoid stuttering he would “pretend to be people who didn’t stutter”, and used the curse word, motherf@*&%er as an affirmation word