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TIL - 2000 was the first year Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all 50 states

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AkNl TIL That Lord Byron, upon attempting to bring his dog with him to Cambridge Trinity College, was informed that dogs were not allowed. He retaliated by bringing a bear instead.
GAGr4 TIL about The Acerra Brothers' Traveling Professional Baseball Club, a baseball team consisting entirely of brothers
e0j5D TIL of the “White Declaration of Independence” and the violent overthrow of democratically elected officials in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898
WkMR8 TIL that Saguaro Cactus do not grow any arms until they are 70-100 years, and can live for over 200 years.
vPjKR TIL after the band The Sisters of Mercy split up, singer Andrew Eldritch heard his ex-bandmates were starting a new band called The Sisterhood. Eldritch secured legal rights to the name, and released a critically panned single the same day his ex-bandmates played their debut show. Both bands failed.