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TIL: “Dr” Martin Luther King plagiarized his PhD thesis

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0JQy TIL a sect of judaism, Neturei Karta opposes Zionism and calls for a peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel, in the belief that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Jewish Messiah.
Z8V6R TIL about Akashinga. An all female, all vegan group that prevents poaching in Africa
OoG51 TIL that the term "boycott" came from the ostracism of enlgish land agent Charles Boycott in Ireland.
OpG6 TIL that Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the Holocaust memoir “Night”, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity. The charity lost nearly $16 million in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Wiesel and his wife also lost their entire personal life savings.
5Yj5P TIL about the Battalion Zośka, made up primarily of outlawed Polish boy scouts and girl scouts. They were responsible for the liberation of the Gęsiówka concentration camp from the Nazis in 1944. The rescued Jews went on to join these young scouts in their instrumental role in the Warsaw Uprising.