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TIL Humans have a stronger bite than the common snapping turtle

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e7Rn TIL that Martin Luther King Jr’s grandmother died of a fatal heart attack that she suffered while MLK was supposed to be looking after her, but was instead watching a local parade. Feeling guilt that it was his fault, he attempted suicide by jumping out a second story window.
GJ54 TIL five years into their ten-year plan, editors of the original Oxford English Dictionary had only reached the word ‘ant’
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R7oBj TIL For 20 years, J.R.R. Tolkien sent his children illustrated letters from Santa Claus where Santa would battle goblins flying on bats, and included fireworks, a prank-loving polar bear, and multiple invented languages.