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TIL Marlon Brandon was in the Civil Rights movement throughout his career, and later advocated for the rights of indigenous Americans. His outspoken activism, in the midst of the harshly segregated '60s, earned him a reserved place near the podium of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream"

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kOPME TIL deep sea exploration vehicle Alvin was once attacked by a swordfish 2000 ft below the surface. The swordfish, with sword stuck in Alvin's skin, was brought to the surface with the sub. The crew then cooked it for dinner.
loJ1r TIL that England used to have a tax based on your number of windows. This mostly led to the building of homes with fewer windows (giving rise to the phrase "daylight robbery"), but conversely also led to some of the rich building homes with an intentionally large amount of windows in order to flex.
GYK0j TIL Nutmeg contains a hallucinogenic compound called myristicin. You can get high with doses of 15 g of grounded nutmeg, and the effect include, hallucinations, dizziness and memory impairment of the trip. This is why it was part of prison culture in the middle of the twentieth century.
E1b9w TIL that the name “Karen” (apart from its slang usage in the past few years) refers to an indigenous, primarily farming people living in villages on the border between Thailand and present-day Burma (Myanmar), as well as the languages they speak.
5YGpQ TIL that the world’s longest marathon took about 54 years. Heat stopped Shiso Kanakuri during the 1967 Olympics. Ashamed, he went back to Japan without alerting authorities. Sweden then put him on a missing persons list for over half a century before he was found and given the chance to finish.