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TIL: “Dr” Martin Luther King plagiarized his PhD thesis
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TIL Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Califiornia wildfire, Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.
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TIL the Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world, with an average of seven children per family.
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TIL a pro-gay film called “Different From the Others” was released in 1919 Germany. It is thought to be the earliest film ever made to show a sympathetic portrayal of homosexuality
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TIL of C341 (aka Félicette) A Stray Parisian Cat Who Became The First Cat In Space in 1963, Survived Her Voyage, But Was Killed Two Months After Returning to Earth So Scientists Could Study Her Brain. A Monument Was Crowd Funded and Completed in 2020.
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TIL that Beast, from Beauty and the Beast, is a chimera with the head of a buffalo, eyebrows of a gorilla, body of a bear, jaws and mane of a lion, tusks of a boar, and legs and tail of a wolf.