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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. said Homosexuality was a Problem that Required Psychiatric Attention

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VMg4G TIL two weeks after JFK's Eternal Flame was lit, it was extinguished accidentally by a group of Catholic schoolkids trying to sprinkle holy water.
RrK6 TIL Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman’s second wife wrote in her divorce complaint: “He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night.”
PYQMO TIL the birth rate in the U.S. in 2018 fell to the lowest level in 32 years. For perspective, this was lower than in the years after the Great Depression.
5Vd1D TIL that Rube Goldberg never actually built a Rube Goldberg Machine, they were bi-weekly comic strips. It was other people who built his designs and other such machines.
4kk5 TIL Pope Benedict VIII condemned cats as evil and had them burned by the thousands. This led to an explosion of the rat population and attributed to the effects of the Black Death