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TIL Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.

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wo6vP TIL the estimate for number of stars in the observable universe is not one per grain of sand on all the beaches in the world - astronomers estimate there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on every beach in the world.
oBLOW TIL sandplay therapy, the playing with sand & objects in a tray, can facilitate a healing process as the unconscious expresses itself in the sand & influences the sand player. The effectiveness of play therapy is comparable to that of psychotherapy
v9jx TIL that after the murder of a civil rights protester in 1963, “That Was The Week That Was” a British comedy show performed a brutal satire of racism in the Deep South
pYoPp TIL about the Khamar-Daban incident, when all but one of seven hikers trying to climb the Khamar-Daban mountains died with mysterious and unexplained symptoms.
E1ljp TIL that the largest living organism on earth is a mushroom in Oregon, USA. Occupying 3.7 sq miles and is 2.4 miles across. (9.6sq km and 3.8km)