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TIL that Japan already had HDTV in the 1990s, way before anywhere else

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YEn7 TIL Martin Luther King Jr. convinced actress Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to not quit her role on the original series of ‘Star Trek’ because he believes that showing a black woman work alongside white men would help achieve racial equality.
W1rA TIL that 11% of USA highway bridges are considered structurally deficient.
vaA7 TIL: Canadian journalist Craig Davidson injected illegal steroids over a 16 week period and wrote about his experiences. He loved his new body - but not the hideous side-effects..
y15M TIL that the US is on 43rd place on freedom of press
8eal4 TIL that Britain looted around 45 trillion dollars from India between 1765 and 1938, based on nearly two years of precise tax and trade data.