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TIL that after scoring the winning goal in the 1993 League Cup final, Arsenal player Steve Morrow fell off the shoulders of teammate Tony Adams. The fall broke Morrow’s arm and he missed the rest of the season

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6Bn8 TIL Firms illegally dumped nuclear waste off Somalia coast, brought to the coast by a Tsunami, causing radiation sickness to the local villagers in 2005
da9d TIL in 2002, a group of 37 deaf people showed up at a Queens of the Stone Age concert during their tour of “Songs For The Deaf”
R5xm1 TIL of "Blue" and "Chirps," a cat and bird who became friends after being adopted and nursed back to health by two men serving life sentences at Folsom State Prison
aweeZ TIL that despite the popular use of being 'low on the totem pole' being lower down in the pecking order, native americans would often accord the most prestige to the lowest position on the totem pole, seen as 'bearing the weight of all other figures', or at eye level to heighten significance
Oo7N4 TIL that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is under copyright. The speech will remain under copyright in the United States until 70 years after King's death, through 2038.