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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank would have been just 96 in 2025.

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pO4Q TIL TBS increased the speed of Seinfeld reruns by 7.5% to get an extra two minutes of advertisement
Bg4Bx TIL that in 2003, a 14-year-old boy in Manchester, England, created fake online personas to manipulate his friend into attempting to murder him, resulting in the UK's first conviction for inciting your own murder.
7VwP TIL that Hugh Thomson, the man who during the Vietnam War had landed a helicopter in the line of fire to confront and stop American troops who had by that point killed close to 500 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre, was labeled a traitor by Congress and ordered not to speak about the event.
5Nj8 TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.
M7o8a TIL the "Tommy Gun" was the 1st weapon labelled a "submachine gun." It originally sold for $200 in 1921 and has since become a collector's item. Today a gun can fetch between $25K-$45K with a model believed to be owned by Bonnie & Clyde selling for $130K.