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TIL Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

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P1kgJ TIL car manufacturers sell spicy tape. It's a wiring tape that's coated with capsaicin to deter rodents from chewing on wires
MBvb TIL in 2007, four AH-64 Apache helicopters were destroyed by mortar fire in Iraq because US soldiers took pictures of them landing at their base, and posted the pictures to the Internet. The pictures were geotagged, allowing insurgents to determine the exact location of the Apaches.
KOgwQ TIL serial killer Ted Bundy dated a girl who broke up with him for being immature and unambitious. Years later, after becoming successful and put together, he rekindled the relationship before completely ghosting her. He explained, "I just wanted to prove to myself that I could have married her"
9YrJ7 TIL that, once the Civil War began, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's plantation outside Washington DC was repurposed by the Lincoln administration to house a camp for escaped slaves. It contained a school, hospital, and cemetery, and it is now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
neQb9 TIL hibernation leaves animals sleep deprived. They have to routinely go out of hibernation and into "regular sleep" in order to restore their brain from the damage done by hibernating.