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TIL Malcolm X dodged the draft by telling the enlisting officer that he couldn’t wait to “Steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers!”

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5YaND TIL Zanjeer aka Ginger was a Sniffer dog who helped detect over 3329 kg of RDX explosives, 249 grenades and live ammunition during the 1993 Mumbai Blasts and thus helped save thousands of lives. Poor boy died of Bone cancer at the age of 8 and was buried with full state honours.
p8KK4 TIL that the guy who wrote "Awesome God" was ejected from a Jeep and then ran over by a semi truck
BrGAe TIL North Korean Kim Jong Il leader visited Pudong, the hotbed of China's information industry, saying he wanted to gain and to learn from China. Chinese President Jiang Zemin also travelled to Pyongyang for three days to build friendship with North Korea
J7PB TIL Cindarella is based on an old Greek fairy tale about a slave-girl who marries the pharaoh.
Lkg9r TIL that supposedly the Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill Sonata) was made by Giuseppe Tartini in an attempt to recreate a song the Devil had played to him in a dream.