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TIL Martin Luther King Jr had a nearly 75% disapproval rating when he died.

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gJQA TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had to use ration coupons to buy the material for her wedding gown
BbLy TIL 90% of college students from China in the US cheat to get admitted
KO7m9 TIL about the Goiânia accident, one of the worst nuclear disasters. Fascinated locals began playing with glowing dust after opening a stolen radioactive capsule: lighting it on fire, applying it to their bodies, & consuming it. Up to 112,000 may have been exposed, & some died.
MerrW Today I learned that a Czech cult member was caught torturing and cannibalizing her children when a neighbor's baby monitor accidentally picked up a video signal showing a boy chained up in a cellar
EgMYX TIL that Waffles get their name from the same source as Wafers, and modern waffle irons are descended from tools for making communion wafers.