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TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. is honored in Hiroshima because of his anti-nuclear weapons stance

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k651 TIL that after Michael Jackson’s death, Google was so inundated with “michael jackson” search requests, they believed they were a victim of a DDoS attack, and blocked further searches for 30 minutes
4kBRw TIL it was illegal to dry clothes on a clothesline in most states in USA, until 2013 when a Right To Dry bill was passed in several states.
O9B4 TIL “Go eat toffee” is a common insult in South Korea, because Korean toffees are shaped like dicks
wL0N6 TIL that WWII spy Odette Sansom was technically one of the first women in war. She was the second-ever female paratrooper as a spy for the "French resistance". In training, she learned how to kill one man in more than 100 ways, morse code, and encryption.
Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.