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TIL Martin Luther King personally talked Lt Uhura out of quitting Star Trek because he thought her role was so important

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a1GL TIL of Carlos Hathcock. A Marine sniper in Vietnam who crawled over 1500 yards to kill a high-ranking NVA officer. It took 4 days to complete because he could move only inches. He also said that he was almost stepped on while camouflaged in a meadow. As well as almost bitten by a Bamboo Viper.
a9gN TIL not flushing the toilet when you pee only saves you about $7.66 per year on your water bill
JYK6V TIL President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously
lo6Nr TIL that rh-null, the rarest blood type of the world, has been called the "Golden Blood". This blood type is so rare that only 43 people in the world have it, and there are only 9 active donor.
GYnb4 TIL After being threatened by the KKK for releasing the R&B track "What a man" in 1968, Linda Lyndell didn't perform again for 35 years, only making a comeback after Salt-N-Pepa sampled the song in their hit "Whatta Man".