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TIL that in 1964 the FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. blackmail tapes and an anonymously written letter that attempted to convince him to commit suicide

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N1v1 TIL that Hugh Hefner is credited for breaking the color barrier in stand up comedy when he hired African American comedian Dick Gregory to perform at the Playboy Club in Chicago.
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Ymvx TIL: US retail sales of gasoline have more than halved in the last decade (2002-2012)
BZRD TIL: Overworking your muscles can cause severe, even fatal, kidney damage in a condition called Rhabdomyolysis
VMLn4 TIL the Spanish Flu got its name during WWI. No one fighting in the war wanted to admit that thousands of their troops were dying to some fast spreading disease. However, Spain was neutral, so they reported on it, making people think they were the source.