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TIL the Director of the FBI keeps a copy of the Wiretap for MLK on his desk as a reminder of past mistakes.

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m1lpv TIL that the first person to decipher an extinct language was the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, who deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754. He managed to do so literally overnight by studying bilingual inscriptions.
Gg9G TIL that the United States is only one of nine countries that guarantees the right to bear arms. The others are Armenia, Columbia, Guatemala, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Switzerland, and Yemen.
QJ5k6 TIL Coca-Cola created a clear version of their soda for the Soviet Union in the 1940s called "White Coke"
jNQ4N TIL US cities are losing 36 million trees a year
WkgJX TIL of a mystery soda vending machine that existed in Capitol Hill, Seattle. The machine appeared sometime in the 1990s and dispensed rare or discontinued drinks cans. It was unknown who filled it. It disappeared leaving a note, and its Facebook page featured photoshop images of it around the world.