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TIL the documents pertaining to Martin Luther King’s assassination is only slated to be released by the US government in 2027

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VM1L4 TIL about Alex Mullen, a memory competitor and American memory grandmaster, who set a world record in 2017 by memorizing 3,238 digits in the space of an hour by using the Sherlock-popularized memory palace.
wokYM TIL housecats are responsible for an annual bird mortality, estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion. And mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals. In the US alone.
Wlvd TIL that in Japan, Hiroshima Peace Flame has been burned continuously since it was lit in 1964, and will remain lit until all nuclear bombs on the planet are destroyed and the planet is free from the threat of nuclear annihilation
OEWg TIL “Reductio ad Hitlerum” is a term for trying to derail an argument by comparing it to Hitler’s or the nazi party’s views.
9YokB TIL social psychologist Stanley Milgram found randomly selected Mid-westerners could deliver a package to a Divinity Student in Boston via personal connections in an average of 5.9 steps (i.e. 6 degrees)