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

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n15W TIL according to Worker’s Comp, the average maximum compensation for an arm in the US is $169,878. For a leg, it’s $153,221. So if something costs “an arm and a leg,” it comes to a total of $323,099.
XEG6 TIL Huey Lewis scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT
wKK7 TIL That The PTC (Parents Television Council) is responsible for the most content complaints ever sent to the FCC and is listed as a Hate Group on Wikipedia.
WkoQA TIL in World War I, deep fried potato batons were popular among American soldiers stationed in Belgian after they were served to the British for their love of chips. As, the language locally and of the Belgian Army at the time was French, they thought they were in France naming them ‘French fries’.
69A47 TIL there’s a math book called Generatingfunctionology (yes, that’s one word).