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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.

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7M5O TIL After working with Tom Cruise on the movie Collateral, Jada Pinkett, together with her husband Will Smith, donated $20.000 to a scientology homeschooling program and funded a scientology-affiliated private elementary school.
nWJP7 TIL that the season 5 of Big Brother Germany lasted for 365 days and had a total of 60 houseguests competing for a grand prize of 1 Million Euros, this season also holds the Guinness world record for being the longest uninterrupted live television broadcast
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NRVN TIL: In 1856, American politician, Preston Brooks (D), beat Senator Charles Sumner ® with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech. He resigned his seat later in the year, only to be reelected to the same position left vacant by his resignation.