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TIL the motel where MLK was assassinated is now the National Civil Rights Museum.

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9xO6 TIL that when Dr. Seuss was having writer’s block he would retreat to a secret closet containing a collection of hats he would wear for inspiration
lXQ5 TIL that a woman died at her own funeral from a heart attack caused by shock when she woke up and saw that she was in a coffin about to be buried alive.
X0DvR TIL that E.T. was voiced by an actress named Pat Welsh, who was a raspy voiced chain smoker and only appeared in three films in her life. Her other famous voice role? Leia’s Boushh disguise in Return of the Jedi.
9YJrr TIL Future US President Hoover Had to Spend 14 Days in Quarantine after arriving in Australia as a Young Mining Engineer in 1898
1E7r TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.