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TIL that Muhammad Ali saved someone from committing suicide - and there is a video of it

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Rpj9 TIL Smoking hookah is no safer than smoking cigarettes and in fact “Smokers may absorb more of the toxic substances also found in cigarette smoke than cigarette smokers do.”
BrP7d TIL that graffiti artist Banksy sought to trademark his image of a protester throwing flowers. The trademark office denied it on the grounds of him having no interest in selling his work. In the ruling they used a quote from one of Banksy's books: "copyright is for losers"
peyA TIL that there is no evidence that iron maidens were actually used as medieval torture devices. They were pieced together in the 18th century for exhibition in order to shock museum patrons.
awDMo TIL Unit 731 in the Japanese Army undertook lethal human experimentation during WWII, not publicized because the U.S. secretly granted immunity to the physicians in exchange for research on biological warfare and data from human experimentation.
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