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TIL the American debt in 1946 was over 106% of the nation's GDP

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9Ybn6 TIL in 1941 the grandmother of Martin Luther King fell down and became unresponsive. MLK blamed himself and attempting suicide by jumping from a second story window
nMAG TIL Fidel Castro and his entourage stayed at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, a centre of the Black community, during his 1960 New York City visit. There he felt African Americans would be more sympathetic to his cause. His stay in Harlem prompted many other leaders to visit the neighborhood
yQXNe TIL that in Norway, the maximum prison sentence for a crime is 21 years. Norway also has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, at just 20%.
MvL0 TIL that Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), originally created the temperature scale Celsius with the freezing point of water being 100° and boiling point being 0°. Eventually after Anders Celsius died, scientists changed the scale to the way we know it today.
mxLyE TIL of Shaul Ladany, the current 50-mile walk world record holder and a Holocaust survivor who also survived the 1972 Olympics Munich Massacre by jumping off a balcony.