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TIL a jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks ruled in 1999 that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, most likely by the police and CIA, and covered up by the FBI.

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oB17r TIL the munitions factory used by Oskar Schindler to save 1200 Jewish workers during WWII is set to be turned into a Holocaust Memorial and Exhibition.
9YGM6 TIL: Hanako-san is a Japanese urban legend about the spirit of a young girl who haunts school toilets. According to the legend, if you summon Hanako-San, her bloody hand appears and pulls you into the toilet and straight to hell.
Xxl8 TIL- Typically, three drugs are used in lethal injection. Sodium thiopental is used to induce unconsciousness, pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
6ErjW TIL Famous dutch hardstyle producer Willem Rebergen, better known by his alias Headhunterz, also works as a voice actor. One of his best known speaking roles was the dinosaur Littlefoot in the dutch dubbing of "A Land Before Time".
p8mJG TIL that the term "rooster" originated in the United States as a puritan euphemism to avoid the sexual connotation of the original English word "cock".