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TIL Hulk Hogan is Hispanic

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mxPJP TIL That King County, Washington, home of Seattle, has a logo that's MLK Jr's face with the county's name underneath
RoZl TIL Exposure to platinum causes snails to turn into slugs
Y7p0Z TIL L. Frank Baum, author of 'The Wizard of Oz', owned a newspaper and frequently wrote in it that all Native Americans should be exterminated
OoDNX TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
oBV5L TIL Mount Everest is so inundated with waste, including 26,500 lbs of human excrement, each season that the Nepalese gov't now requires each climber to pack out 8 kg of waste when descending the mountain (human waste, empty cans/bottles, abandoned tents, etc.).