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TIL Finnish police have shot only 4 people to death in 25 years

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064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
Lkj7Q TIL the gun that was used to kill Trayvon Martin sold for $250,000
rNnW1 TIL New Zealand trialled anonymous testicle checks, which involved booths with a glory hole style hole for a doctor to stick his hand through and feel your testicles.