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TIL that the FBI sent MLK Jr. a letter trying to convince him to commit suicide

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m1wLO TIL four Catholic Priests survived less than a mile from the blast of the A Bomb on Hiroshima
V8W4 TIL 1 in 10 inhabitants on the island of Pingelap is color blind due to a ‘population bottleneck’ in 1775 after a catastrophic typhoon swept through the remote island leaving only 20 survivors. One of the survivors was King Nanmwarki Mwanenihsed, patient 0 with the rare Achromatopsia gene.
yQRxJ TIL that the Finnish Civil War of 1918 was the deadliest civil conflict in the world in relation to the population until the Rwandan Genocide of 1994