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TIL Martin Luther King's iconic sentence "I have a dream" was improvised. Toward the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme "I have a dream", prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"

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N7QV8 TIL ancient folklore saved several native tribes during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami (death toll 230,000). While many locals and tourists ventured curiously into the receding waters, the natives fled, citing "huge shaking of ground followed by high wall of water"
5YrLk TIL: That Native Americans were in contact with the Donner party several times, and actively offered them food. Only to be "Scared off/denied" and the Donner party to unfortunately choose cannibalism.
npOd TIL there is a man in Australia who ages one year for every four. After celebrating his 40th birthday, he had the physical body of a 10 year old.
v1MRx TIL That in June 23, 1971, Phillies pitcher, Rick Wise pitched a no-hitter and hit two home runs against the Cincinnati Reds.
NXyAE TIL that during his time undercover as Donnie Brasco, Joseph Pistone was asked to do four hits. At least once, the FBI had to stage a murder when it was too risky for him to try and get out of doing it.