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TIL Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., was shot in the back as she played the organ in church after a man jumped up and shouted “I’m taking over this morning!”

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R5wE8 TIL that in 2023, Jamaican sprinter and multiple world-record holder Usain Bolt lost nearly $13m USD in a 13 year-long fraud scheme at a Kingston investment firm. The money has not been retrieved.
n6K7 TIL data recorded from human experimentation carried out in Nazi death camps like Auschwitz is still used by scientists and doctors to this day because no similar level data exists
kJJod TIL that Napster issued a cease and desist order to the band The Offspring to stop them selling bootleg merchandise imprinted with the Napster logo
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