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

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Z8YQa TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
mdRp TIL that Japanese monks known as the Sokushinbutsu caused their own deaths through self-mummification, which they thought of as a form of enlightenment.
Vk6D TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.
1LvD TIL Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa’s son, is being sued by his father’s estate in a trademark dispute for using the Zappa name.
kJaB TIL that Oreos in Canada are made with coconut oil, which apparently gives them a different taste than their US counterparts.