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TIL self-defense is not an enumerated right under US Constitution

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AN6Ao TIL that when the Lorraine Hotel (where MLK was killed) was converted to a Museum in 1988, one of its long-term residents refused to leave, claiming that MLK wouldn't've wanted millions of dollars spent on a memorial to him. After being evicted, she began living in front of the museum in protest.
o40L TIL that when Ellery Schempp won the landmark case which banned prayer in public schools, his high school principal wrote letters of disrecommendation to every college he applied to. He was accepted to each one.
Lk6od TIL that the term Banana republic was invented by the author O. Henry when he lived in Honduras, and described a politically unstable country dependent upon the exportation of limited-resource product.
ANKPo TIL there's an airport in Amsterdam that uses landscaping to reduce noise
nWWG9 Today I learned of Simon the Sorcerer, the magician in the bible who tried to pay his way into the Apostles and knew how to fly