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TIL the only reason MLK was on the hotel balcony where he would be assassinated was because he was taking a break from a pillow fight in his room

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7r9r TIL that the Playboy rabbit head is hidden on almost every cover since the 1960’s
VMLp8 TIL Ella Fitzgerald forgot the lyrics of "Mack The Knife" during a live performance in Berlin. She improvised after the first stanza and won a Grammy for the recording in 1961.
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