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TIL Actor Samuel L Jackson was a pallbearer at Martin Luther King Junior's funeral

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b6oZZ TIL C. J. Lewis tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981 and two years later he tried to escape from psych ward to kill Prince Charles
Oo6MR TIL the CIA, FBI, & other Govt agencies still use Polygraph tests for screening employees despite no supporting scientific evidence of their effectiveness and being legally banned in the hiring process of most jobs and as evidence in court rooms.
xVeo5 TIL that The Sex Pistols were asked by their manager to write a song called "Submission", hoping they would write about bondage. Instead they wrote a song about a submarine mission.
nWvoY TIL that the richest person in the world is France's Bernard Arnault (with a net worth of $214.4 billion), and that he got his start in the luxury goods industry when he bought Christian Dior in 1985 for $15 million, using money from his father’s successful construction business.
EoD7 TIL that the Pholcidae spider (Daddy long leg) preys upon venomous spiders like the black widow.