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TIL Samuel L. Jackson was expelled from his college by locking the board members in a building in protest; one of them being Martin Luthor King Sr.

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DQAeD TIL that just before WW1 began, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey was heard to say ominously, “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”
XE16Q TIL following the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico, a blind woman 150 miles from the site asked, "What's that brilliant light?".
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XadP TIL that if you confess you murdered someone to a priest, your secret is protected by Catholic law