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TIL that rapper Tech N9ne picks up bras that women throw on stage when he performs and donated them to domestic violent shelters.

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XLmk TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta threw him a dinner party that was almost cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola’s CEO threatened to move the company out of Atlanta since he thought it was embarrassing that the city’s people wouldn’t honor their Nobel Prize winner.
rQEe TIL that founding father and propagandist of the American Revolution Thomas Paine wrote a book called ‘The Age of Reason’ arguing against Christianity. He went from a revolutionary hero to reviled, 6 people attended his funeral and 100 years later Teddy Roosevelt called him a “filthy little atheist”
gr1Ob TIL that Trace Adkins cut off his own pinky while trying to open a bucket with a knife; he had doctors put it on at an angle so he could still play guitar. (Also in a separate incident his second ex-wife shot him through his heart and lungs, somehow he survived)
NXEwb TIL - FBI is struggling to hire hackers due to a rule saying they shouldn’t have taken marijuana in the past 3 years.
5LNR TIL neon light left on for 77 years, which was discovered during renovation of landmark restaurant. The fixture had been walled off and forgotten in a basement nook, where it proceeded to rack up over $17,000 in electrical bills.