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TIL only .5% of all housing in the UK has air conditioning

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X4dj TIL in 1999 Martin Luther King Jr’s family won a wrongful death lawsuit, the jury found that the US Government had some doing in his assassination. The family only asked for $100 in restitution to prove the suit was not for financial gain.
4XXV6 TIL that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan installed an 11 meter (36 ft) tall marble statue of a middle finger directly in front of the Milan Stock exchange as a clear message to Italy's CEOs and Bankers
XE7yR TIL there's a very large, clumsy, and flightless species of ground-dwelling Parrot in New Zealand called the Kakapo. Critically endangered, these turkey-sized, incredibly friendly and hopeless birds are mostly uninterested in mating, have no practical defenses, and often forget that they cannot fly.
4X16R TIL of Brian Robson, a Welshman man who tried to mail himself back to the UK. Unfortunately, not only did he not arrive at his intended location, he instead arrived in Los Angeles in extreme pain and was barely able to move.
pjrO TIL of Joan Murray who landed on a mound of fire ants at 80mph after her parachute failed to open. Doctors believe that the shock of being stung over 200 times by the ants released a surge of adrenaline which kept her heart beating.