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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. studied Gandhi and practiced "satyagraha"

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e07Mn TIL that tons of wreckage from the USS Arizona, removed during Memorial construction in 1962, were dumped on the ground in Waipio Peninsula near Pearl Harbor, and remain there today.
nWWZB TIL that many food products readily sold for consumption in the US are illegal and banned in Europe because they contain dangerous substances, like arsenic and growth hormones, that cause cancer and birth defects.
l7evr TIL that the band Hanson released a beer called Mmmhops and has their own beer company.
DaMe TIL PETA kills 90% of the animals they save within the first 24 hours.
e0kE5 TIL in 2005, a strip club in Bloise, Idaho, managed to sidestep city laws banning total nudity in public by offering customers the chance to make drawings depicting its dancers. The law forbids full nudity in public unless the display has "serious artistic merit".