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TIL the older a world leader is the more likely they are to lead their nation into war.

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Awxo TIL Martin Luther King’s doctoral thesis stole heavily from another dissertation - 45% of the first half and 21% of the second half of King’s thesis was plagiarized but his degree was not revoked
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