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TIL MLK was working on a multiracial Poor People's Campaign when he was killed.

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loyJB TIL teeth are not bones but are evolved fish scales
ROZw TIL that the name Tyrone is Irish and there is a County Tyrone
neDW TIL that Congress has a lower approval rating than Hugo Chavez, the US going Communist, Paris Hilton, the BP Oil Spill, Banks, and Nixion During Watergate
4kJNw TIL that the heavily outnumbered British won the pivotal Battle of Plassey that started their conquest of India because they knew how to deal with rain. They covered their gunpowder while the Siraj's gunpowder got wet and unusable.
5VLaR TIL that the rarest and most expensive silk in history, is made from mussel threads. Once worn by royalty its production nearly vanished—today, only one woman in Sardinia, Chiara Vigo, still weaves it.