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90Qp TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed just as he was organizing a poor people’s campaign demanding universal basic income and criticizing the government for spending more on war and stifling social programs.
7rRMO TIL the non-profit Nurse-Family Partnership, which arranges for registered nurses to make regular home visits to first-time low-income or vulnerable mothers, reduced the number of babies or toddlers hospitalized for accidents by more than half and increased babies' IQ by 5 to 7 points
Y7Lkv TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, lost her virginity to her future husband, who at the time had a pregnant wife, at the cemetery at her mother's grave.
e0jL6 TIL that in the novel “No Country for Old Men,” set in 1980, Sheriff Bell refers to dope dealers who “shot and killed a federal judge” in San Antonio. The film version stars Woody Harrelson, whose father was the real-life contract killer convicted of that murder in 1979.
R7lG9 TIL astronauts receive a starting salary of only 66k a year.