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TIL that MLK Jr’s mother was also assassinated 6 years after he was

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p8eN TIL Thomas Jefferson’s personal Bible was a copy he re-edited himself to remove all supernatural elements, leaving only universally accepted moral teachings in the book.
N7rXP TIL, in Ancient Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death.
Ykr TIL in the 60s female track athletes were required to be examined naked to verify their sex.
Xa8P TIL that there was a study that says short men have sex more often
Z8ZxG TIL there was a walled city in Hong Kong that had no laws and the population was 119 times as dense as NYC.