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TIL MLK graduated high school at 15 and college at 19.

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lPL5 TIL a company called Eidos is working on a mask that would allow you to enhance your hearing and vision to “superhuman” levels.
nWE5r TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class project he did while studying the ocean currents. Ben began his message with "Dear Beachcomber."
mxwno TIL that Japan has a phone to call the dead. The "wind phone" was created by a man named Itaru Sasaki, who thought that it would be a healing way to talk to his cousin who had passed away—even if the conversation was one-sided. Others now also use the phone in order to feel closer to their deceased.
9w8O6 TIL that every champion of the FIFA Under 20 World Cup since 2007 has failed to qualify for the following edition of the tournament.
Oo9v7 TIL radiological technologist Paul Bateson inspired William Friedkin to include a medical procedure in The Exorcist which Bateson performed in the film. Bateson, active in the gay leather scene, later committed a murder and was linked to a series of murders, inspiring Friedkin to make Cruising