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TIL that “Dr.” Martin Luther King’s Ph.D thesis was plagiarized, and many of his speeches were “borrowed”.

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XEP7j TIL that paramedics are trained not to run to patients, as walking keeps them calmer on arrival and more likely to take in the situation.
EyBV TIL Piracy off Somalia’s coast has created a sanctuary from commercial fishing efforts and has become, “one of the world’s richest sources of the fish, experts say”.
x6JyD TIL that in the US the average housing square footage per person between 1920 and 2014 went from 242 to 1023 sq.ft per person. That's a fourfold increase.
4XvEo TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was valedictorian of his school and had a masters in molecular biology before the band became famous. He since earned his PhD and published a paper on the use of computational molecular biological approaches to identify microRNA sequences in HIV
awrbo TIL A moment was a medieval measurement of time and corresponded to 90 seconds.