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TIL Fred Figglehorn ( Lucas Cruikshank ) is only 31 years old today.

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ADd1x TIL Los Angeles has an abandoned subway system
vdWr TIL one penny and two pence coins are legal tender only up to the sum of 20p; this means that it is permissible to refuse payment of sums greater than this amount in 1p and 2p coins in order to settle a debt. (UK)
Mmv8 TIL that six years after Martin Luther King was shot and killed, his mother was also shot and killed, in the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, Auburn, Alabama.
9Yor TIL Matt Groening was once strip searched in airport security. As he was led away, a little boy laughed at him like Nelson from The Simpsons. Groening found the mockery the worst part of the incident
8ePOL TIL in the early 1930s, Cadillac's policy was to not sell cars to black people. In 1933, Nicholas Dreystadt, a middle manager at General Motors, crashed a GM executive committee meeting and convinced them to drop the policy and instead market to black people. Sales increased by 70% within a year.