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TIL Martin Luther King was a Democratic Socialist

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e5eJ TIL Norman Borlaug, a late professor at Texas A&M, used his knowledge of soil science to help solve food shortage problems in various regions of the world. He won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work, which has helped save one billion people from starving.
AQGl TIL NASA offers $17000 for people willing to lay in bed for 3 Months
OOQ4 TIL Clair Cameron Patterson was counting lead isotopes in rocks to find the age of the earth, after finding the age of the earth he also found out there was unhealthy amounts of lead in the atmosphere caused by tetraethyl lead, Patterson campaigned to stop the use of tetraethyl lead and won in 1978.
kb0e TIL that the number of planets in the observable universe outnumber the sum of all sounds, words, and noises uttered by every human who has ever lived.