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TIL Arizona canceled MLK Day in the 90s and Public Enemy fought back

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Br1ar TIL inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller tried to document his life as completely as possible. Every 15 minutes from 1915 to his death in 1983 he recorded his life in his diary named ‘Dymaxion Chronofile’. Ultimately, it contains 14,000 papers and is a staggering 82 metres high.
PYKyO TIL Hawaiian King Kamehameha IV was shocked when in America, a train conductor mistook him for the servant: "The first time that I have ever received such treatment, not in England or France or anywhere else... In England an African can pay his fare and sit alongside Queen Victoria."
vPMlK TIL a python snake got addicted to meth fumes and was rehabilitated by Australian prisoners in a wildlife care program.
BXKD TIL that Britain only finished paying its WW2 debts off in 2006, and was only three months shy of bankruptcy when the war ended in 1945
LQm7Z TIL that in the 1860s, Napoleon III backed the “Pantelegraph", an early fax machine invented by Giovanni Caselli in 1855 - over 20 years before the telephone. It sent handwriting over telegraph lines; 25 words took 108 seconds. It was frequently used to verify signatures in banking.