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TIL Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.

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lodjB TIL Mr. Rogers loved to fart in public to amuse his wife when they attended boring parties or gatherings. According to Joanne Rogers, "He would just raise one cheek and he would look at me and smile." She also said Rogers enjoyed listening to her tell dirty jokes
gJ8A TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
NW5E TIL 62% of citizens in Copenhagen ride a bicycle daily to work or education
epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.
yAlM TIL Roald Dahl, author of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and other famous children’s novels, was also a renowned Adult Fiction author, even having written for Playboy.