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TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr. Improvised the iconic part of ‘I Have A Dream’

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Wkvxo TIL NASA will launch a SpaceX rocket next summer in a test of planetary defense. The rocket will impact a near-earth asteroid in 2022 in an attempt to change its trajectory.
7rAGP TIL: A Civil War General was both commander and quartermaster for his own company, and would send himself requests and even deny and argue with himself out of a sense of propriety
PJ5J TIL that a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki instead of Kyoto partly because the Secretary of War at the time had his honeymoon there and admired it too much.
9YkO7 TIL that when Yuri Gagarin was on the bus to the launch pad, he asked the driver to stop so he could pee. It is now tradition for all astronauts leaving from Russia to unzip their suits and pee on the rear right tire of their bus.
e0rEb TIL that during World War II, German soldiers in Africa consumed Camel feces believing that it prevented and treated dysentery.