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TIL that the King family does not believe James Earl Ray was responsible for the assassination of MLK, and that King’s wife won a civil suit that implied government involvement.

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EKpX TIL that John Lennon delighted in mocking his manager, Epstein, for his homosexuality and for the fact that he was Jewish.
YDMv TIL that, outside of Washington, D.C., a Virginia man built a castle to be fully defensible in the case of nuclear Armageddon. Built entirely by its owner, it has three heating systems and a maze of underground conduits, and it has been used as a meeting place for a group of self-professed vampires.
XEWN6 TIL that only 2 foreigners reached the rebel army's highest rank "comandante" during the Cuban revolution. One of them was Che Guevara. The other was a American soldier named William A. Morgan. He joined the revolution in 1957, claiming to seek revenge for a friend who was killed by Batista's regime
wLeYE TIL Steven Spielberg didn’t want to direct Indiana Jones because it was planned to be a trilogy and he didn’t want to write 2 more scripts. George Lucas told him not to worry as he’d already written them, but when time came for the first sequel, Lucas revealed he’d written nothing for either sequel.
oeDY TIL that the largest cashew tree in the world covers an area of about 7,500 square metres (81,000 sq ft) and produces over 60,000 fruits each year.