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TIL the Civil Rights Act of 1968 passed only days after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination and the widespread civil unrest across the country following King's death

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OGoL1 TIL David Attenborough, in his capacity as BBC Two controller, created the televised snooker tournament Pot Black in 1969. The series was highly popular, playing a large part in turning snooker from a minor sport into one of the UK's most popular.
0oWA TIL that Coconuts are so important in the Cook Islands they ask about them in the census. For the record, each home eats ten coconuts per week… and feeds 75 to their animals.
GYA47 TIL king Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a set of twins to life imprisonment if one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other drank 3 pots of tea to test the effects of the newly introduced coffee.
lopPN TIL that the sound you hear with WW2 planes diving was caused by a siren fitted to the German planes to scare ground infantry
PYBpL TIL the Pledge of Allegiance was written to sell more flags in the US