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TIL that Martin Luther King Jr went to prison 29 times, including once for speeding

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kKE4 TIL: Eugene O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel at Times Square, he also died on November 27, 1953 in another hotel in Boston. His last words were “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.”
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