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TIL A Black Woman who was mentally ill tried to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 10 years before James Earl Ray actually succeeded.

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AN6bx TIL The St. Johns River is the longest river in Florida, and the longest river in the United States that flows northward
0ded1 TIL the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) in New York enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time. It was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of NYC. Its loss galvanized the historic preservation movement
GYg9E TIL: Benjamin Franklin was the originator of raising taxes to pay for lower income families to do public service for a wage. City sweepers were the original public service job of the 1700s.
yVZBJ Today I learned that Ben Affleck's first television role was as C.T. Granville on the educational television program The Voyage of the Mimi which ran on PBS in 1984
Rwwl TIL a guy named Jon Postel once hijacked the Internet, causing all domain name controls to be transferred to his computer.