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TIL that the pathogen Streptococcus Group A literally wears the "skin" of red blood cells that it's killed, to camouflage itself from the immune system.

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X0mRX TIL that Martin Luther King's family sued against "unknown government agencies" for the assassination of MLK. They won, while using the same lawyer as MLK's assassin, James Earl Ray.
Eg6k0 TIL: The defunct bank Wachovia laundered $378.4 billion between 2004 - 2007 for the Mexican and Colombia Cartels. They had to forfeit $110mil and were only fined $50mil.
mxQGo TIL Joe Strummer, frontman of The Clash, was paid £100 to marry his first wife Pamela Moolman so she could obtain British citizenship. Afterwards, he began a long relationship with Gaby Salter, but couldn't marry her because he couldn't locate Moolman to divorce her first
rRAJe TIL The elephant penis, when erect, can weigh 66 pounds and be more than 3 feet long. It’s also prehensile, which means the elephant can move it around and even use it to scratch hard to reach places or even swat flies.
VK4k TIL that a 15-year-old did the same thing that Rosa Parks did 9 months earlier, but wasn’t iconized in part because she was too dark-skinned