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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped and sent an anonymous letter from J Edgar Hoover encouraging him to kill himself

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EgvAw TIL: In 1944, Polish POWs were granted permission by their German captors to stage an unofficial POW Olympics in the Oflag II-C camp. An Olympic Flag was raised, made with a bed sheet and pieces of colored scarves. The event has been considered to be a demonstration of Olympic spirit during wartime.
0dPyA TIL that the kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, lit. 'divine wind') were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan.
XZ06 TIL Neil Flynn, who played Janitor on Scrubs, would improvise in the role so often that once the screenplay said ‘Janitor: Whatever Neil says’
P8VJ TIL that cat forelimbs are attached to the shoulder by free-floating clavicle bones, which allow them to pass their body through any space into which they can fit their heads.
VB5R4 TIL Washington State leads apple production in the United States, accounting for over half of the nation’s domestically grown apples.