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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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1LP TIL that as recently as 2000 years ago Madagascar was home to gorilla-sized lemurs … humans encountered them and they quickly died out [middle of first paragraph]
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Pa8L TIL during her 2007 Emmys acceptance speech, Sally Field said, “if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars in the first place,” but was censored on American TV - international viewers heard the whole quote.