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TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. Day resulted from a campaign by Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron, the musician behind The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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wL8pY TIL about the Look-and-say sequence, an incremental pattern generated from counting the number of consecutive digits in groups of the same digit.
PY0RL TIL Adidas are making shoes from recycled ocean plastic and in 2017 sold 1,000,000+ pairs of these shoes. Each pair of shoes takes 11 plastic bottles to create
MeVj0 TIL of Brian Wells a pizza delivery man who was forced to rob a bank with an explosive device around his neck which led to his death as he ran out of time by being pulled over by the state police
OGV9e TIL Fender Guitars did a study and found that 90% of new guitar players abandon playing within 1 year. The 10% that don't quit spend an average of $10,000 on hardware over their lifetime, buying 5-7 guitars and multiple amps.
xjQw TIL in the 3rd Century BC a ship was built by the Egyptian Pharaoh that could carry up to 7400 men. It is considered by some to be the largest human powered vessel ever built.