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TIL Martin Luther King was a Democratic Socialist

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Lk4am TIL A theater's air composition varies depending on what kind of scene is playing. A study showed that the strongest collective chemical response was for suspense and comedy sequences. Understanding the change in the air's chemistry in theaters can help us develop cancer detection techniques.
pYR9e TIL that more than 50% of kids in China want to become astronauts when they grow up, while only around 10% in the US want to.
4kDNN TIL about the true crime case of Shane coffey & how he meticulously planned to murder a woman in the UK after learning twice that she was talking to other males besides him & travelled all the way from Boston to the 🇬🇧 with a concealed 🔪 to carry out his plan only to be beaten up by her brother
bXL9 TIL in 1983 a 61 Year Old Farmer Won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
awRjy TIL in June 2020, 20-year-old student Alexander Kearns committed suicide after the interface of the trading app Robinhood lead him to believe he owed $730,000, that he didn't, with the note, "How was a 20-year-old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars' worth of leverage?"