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

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xVexb TIL that at age 35, Harrison Ford fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola when a studio executive, testing actresses for new film, asked him to help out by reading the lines written for the male lead. The film was "Star Wars".
dDQAK TIL a filmmaker made a 10-hour movie of paint drying, forcing the British ratings board to sit through it to give it a classification in protest of film censorship.
OoEyR TIL What sound an angry Tarantula makes and I dont know how to deal with that information but I will share it with you guys so we can happily suffer together
5Qnn TIL in 2005 a man landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest. Two days later he did it again, proving he didn’t just get lucky the first time.
8xLV TIL that Paul Pierce was stabbed 11 times in the face, neck and back in 2000, yet was the only player on the Celtics to start the entire 2000-2001 season.