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TIL Don Black, former Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of Storm Front, was shot in the chest by Jerry Ray, brother of the assassin that killed Martin Luther King Jr.

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ZRMD TIL that Qatar is 25% female.
JYZJk TIL there exists a separate time zone on the moon. It’s called Lunar Standard Time (LST) and the calendar started on July 21st, 1969 at 02:56:15 UT, the moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.
a8nQ0 TIL Manatees control they buoyancy with their farts. They have specially evolved bowel pouches that let them selectively release their flatulence when they want to float up or down.
xVaDB TIL the makers of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say "It's All Pink on the inside!"
ANxbo TIL a pilot bet the first officer he could land his plane with the curtains closed, relying just on the instruments. Seventy people on-board died in the resulting crash, but the pilot survived.