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TIL that Martin Luther King Jr's great great grandfather was Irish.

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e0evn TIL about Stella Kübler, a German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Nazis in hunting down thousands of hiding Jews despite her parents being killed. After the war she converted to Christianity and became an open anti-semite
xOyb TIL The town of Harrogate, UK has been ranked as the highest per capita hazardous drinkers and pornography watchers in Britain, but also the happiest.
XExdE TIL about the "Angry Angel of Chinatown", Donaldina Cameron who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution and indentured servitude from 1895 to 1934.
7repr TIL ships that were constructed before 1945 are the primary source of steel that is not contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with nuclear tests and disasters have polluted the atmospheric air that is being used for the steel production.
E1xvo TIL the Nazis kept a secret list of people to be immediately arrested after the invasion of England. The list included numerous political leaders, but also Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, and the head of the Boy Scouts