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TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People who have a stake in their society, protect their society, but when when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”

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eaR4 TIL that the infinity symbol is conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1000, CIƆ or sometimes CƆ, since Romans hyperbolically used 1000 to represent very large numbers.
XEOEk TIL that China has only one time zone – despite spanning 5 geographical ones
VMDVm TIL that William McBride, an Australian obstetrician who helped determine the link between thalidomide and birth defects, was years later de-registered for falsifying scientific data to claim that another drug also caused birth defects.
9pwQ TIL that L. Ron Hubbard regularly used cocaine, hallucinogens, barbiturates, amphetamines, peyote, and mescaline.
e04Kb TIL Professionals who walk over hot coals and broken glass have confirmed that walking over Lego bricks is more painful