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TIL the US gov’t was found guilty of assassinating MLK jr in civil court

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jNgkE TIL that Ferrari's famous "prancing horse" logo was coined because one of Enzo Ferrari's best friends gave him a necklace with a prancing horse just before taking off and then getting shot down in a WWI dogfight over the Isonzo Front
5Vm9r TIL 'First, do no harm' is not part of the Hippocratic Oath
awmZN TIL that you shouldn't design something with more than 50 elements on screen at once
lWWr TIL that NASA wanted to send Caroll Spinney, the actor who plays Big Bird to space via the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986 to interest children in space. However, the Big Bird suit was too big for the shuttle, so he was replaced by teacher Christa McAuliffe.
5V0jB TIL Pythagoras was a vegetarian. He believed that killing and eating animals sullied the soul and prevented union with a higher form of reality. Additionally, he felt that eating meat was unhealthy and made humans wage war against one another.