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

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WkPoA TIL that in 3 days Queen Elizabeth II will move from 7th to 6th place in the list of oldest serving state leaders of all time, surpassing George Tupou I King of Tonga.
KObLa TIL The band ‘Tool’ have a “secret album” called “The Holy Gift.” If you listen to their album “Lateralus” in a different order of tracks, the songs flow into each other even better, and and they make different musical themes from the original.
DalY TIL that the japanese didn’t just have suicide pilots but they had suicide submarine captains that would guide torpedoes into allied ships.
0mLR TIL the collars on mens dress shirts used to be detachable. Why? “Detachable collars saved on laundering since they were the part that needed frequent cleaning and replacement.”
v1mxB TIL about Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a system where two AI’s effectively “compete” against each other to create synthetic new versions of existing data like photos or music