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TIL that working out the area of the largest sofa that can be moved around an L shaped hallway still remains mathematically unsolved.

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9gpX TIL: Martin Luther King Jr’s son met James Earl Ray asking him, “I just want to ask you, for the record, um, did you kill my father?” Ray replied, “No-no I didn’t,” and King tells Ray that he, along with the King family, believed him; the King family urged that Ray be granted a new trial.
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