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TIL only 8% of the outdoor statues of people in the US are of women

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l7LEG TIL Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered six years after his assassination (1974). She was shot and killed while playing the organ in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband and son both preached.
kJnam TIL the tiny island of Hatoma in the Ryukyu archipelago saved its only school by accepting students from mainland Japan who can’t attend a local school due to stress or mental difficulties
GAnv5 TIL The internet was born in 1969. Which happens to be the last year that the Beatles performed in public.
lZGB TIL in 2007, several weeks after complaining of a headache, a 12 year old boy died due to bacteria from an infected tooth invading his brain. Dental care is treated as an option, not a need, and many people suffer and die as a result.
4kLmX TIL a robot had an ear from a dead locust attached so it could hear sound. The ear required a supply of nutrients and oxygen to keep the organ living