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TIL James Earl Ray, the man who killed Martin Luther King, escaped from prision in 1967 and went to Mexico, where he attempted to establish himself as a pornographic film director.(paragraph 6)

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WxjX TIL in 1975, a 15-year-old girl was beaten to death, with the primary suspects in the murder being Kennedy-Cousins Thomas and Michael Skakel. Although Michael Skakel was overheard in 1978 stating, “I’m going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy”, it was not until 2002 that he was convicted.
loPlN TIL Arizona granted women the right to vote 8 years before the women’s suffrage movement.
ygp8 TIL that door knobs made out of brass automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours through the oligodynamic effect
BgaPe TIL about Craig Shergold, a former cancer patient who requested greeting cards to try and beat the record for "most greeting cards received". The number stood at 1,000,065. Shergold broke the record and obtained 350 million cards throughout his life until he requested for them to stop.
5e8Q TIL Jim Carrey’s family was so poor that he quit school at 15 to support them by working as a janitor. He carried a baseball bat in his janitor’s cart because, “[he] was so angry [he] just wanted to beat the heck out of something.”