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TIL that the FBI once sent Martin Luther King Jr. a threatening letter encouraging him to commit suicide.

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d8NVZ TIL that the back vocals on Money for Nothing is by Sting
788BO TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a "living portrait" of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.
wL0W8 TIL In 1970 Oregon attempted to discard a whale carcass on its coast by blowing it up.
D1pAV TIL a 55 gallons of peppermint oil will flavor 5 million sticks of gum.
lyr7 TIL The IMF estimates we subsidize big oil to the tune of $10 million per minute