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

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jN9lX TIL Norman Greenbaum wrote the famous song, "Spirit in The Sky" in only 15 minutes, and has been living solely on the royalties for the last 50 years.
N7dk1 TIL The USS Johnston was saluted by a Japanese destroyer captain as it was sinking, after spending nearly 3 hours squaring off against 23 Japanese ships, including 4 Battleships, 8 Cruisers and 11 destroyers.
9DP6 TIL there are still 10 people in the world living in an iron lung, including a man in Dallas.
xVy4o TIL NASA launched a satellite after the USSR launched Sputnik, and it crashed in 3 seconds— so the press dubbed it ‘Kaputnik’
j6NEQ TIL that fireflies are facing extinction in the United States.