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

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yVoPe TIL about "Bomb" a Canadian Sherman M4A2 tank that landed on Juno Beach on D Day and fought across Europe every day until the the words "Unload, clear guns, the war is over" came over the radio, indicating the end of the war. 4000km travelled, never missed a day of combat.
71Gp TIL of an Italian named Fabrizio Quattrocchi who yelled “I’ll show you how an Italian dies!” while trying to remove his hood before being executed by his Iraqi kidnappers.
ANOQB TIL: The villains in the first Sherlock Holmes (1887) story were a group of Mormons
JvBQ TIL that the last serving soldier drafted during the Vietnam war didn’t retire until 2014
XPEk TIL that in 2009 a Belgian bodybuilding championship was canceled after doping officials arrived unannounced and all the competitors fled