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TIL that Martin Luther King Jr's autopsy revealed that even though he was only 39 when he died, he had the heart of a 60-year-old man, which was most likely stress-related

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BE6y TIL one of the key determinants as to whether a UK submarine launches a nuclear missile is if BBC Radio 4 is off air for four hours
ZpPaY TIL: Rick Moranis had to act in slow motion during the filming of “Little Shop of Horrors”, acting at 12 frames per second
rNNbo TIL during WW2, Germany experimented with rocket powered submarines. They could reach underwater speeds of 28.1 knots (52.0 km/h; 32.3 mph).
5VKJn TIL that the oldest person in the world is 116 years and 116 days old TODAY
rB8w TIL that Josip Broz Tito after surviving assassination attempts wrote to Stalin: “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle … If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”