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TIL A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, instead of actor James Earl Jones

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VMD5G TIL about Wendell Fertig, a US serviceman who rather than surrender with the bulk of US forces during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, “self-promoted” himself to Brigadier General and organized pockets of Filipino fighters and other US serviceman into a highly effective Guerilla force
DWgY TIL that according to studies, the average high school student has the same amount of anxiety as a 1950’s child psychiatric patients.
wLl4W TIL During the Civil War the Union Army made a parody of the Confederate's de facto anthem "Dixie"
VM09D TIL of a researcher who was trying to develop eye-protection goggles for doctors doing laser eye surgery. He let his friend borrow them while playing frisbee, and his friend informed him that they cured his colorblindness.
mxRyx TIL that after JFK's assassination that people were so angry with Dallas that it was common for people to deny that they were from the city.