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TIL that the BBC has a Coat of Arms.

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p8r4Q TIL that in 193 AD, the personal bodyguards of the Roman Emperor Pertinax, after killing him, auctioned off the entire Roman Empire. The successful bidder, Didius Julianus was emperor for two months, after which he was beheaded and replaced.
5Vwkr TIL Navajo is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and is most widely spoken north of the Mexico–United States border, with almost 170,000 Americans speaking Navajo at home as of 2011.
6EZXl TIL of the Social Gospel: an early 20th century Christian movement dedicated to unionization, homing everyone, feeding the poor, solving economic inequality, and social justice. They believed the second coming couldn't happen until humans solved these problems.
DQXGP TIL that the first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix, France in 1924, only four nations participated in the inaugural event.
awl0M TIL J. Paul Austin, CEO of Coca Cola threatened in 1964 to move his company's headquarters out of Atlanta if the city did not hold a celebration honoring MLK receiving the Nobel Prize.