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TIL that Malcolm X was declared mentally unfit for military service after telling draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers”.

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4kpEa TIL that millennials add a barely perceptible pause that is present at the start of some recorded videos, called the Millennial Pause, prevailing theory is that Zoomers can trust their device to start recoding immediately whereas Millennials cannot
RBk9 TIL in Finland, speeding tickes are calculated on a percentage of a person’s income. This causes some Finnish millionaires to face fines of over $100,000.
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