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TIL A letter was sent to Martin Luther King, sounding as if coming from a disappointed admirer, urging King to kill himself or risk evidence of adultery being leaked. King believed it was from the FBI. The Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King’s suspicion.

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OGnb7 TIL psilocybin was shown to have potential benefits for mental health conditions. Notably, research published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Psychiatry in 2020 found that psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy was an effective treatment for a group of 24 participants with major depressive disorder.
A1Rn TIL In the 1913 Tour de France, Eugène Christophe’s front fork on his bike broke. He carried it 10 km to the nearest blacksmith, where he used the forge to weld it back together. He was penalized 3 minutes because he had a local kid pump the bellows for him.
QMMX TIL there is an oversized bronze statue of Zidane headbutting Materazzi in Paris
nepL9 TIL of Mauro Prosperi who survived for 9 days alone in the Saharan Desert on a diet of urine and bats after becoming disoriented and travelling nearly 200 miles in the wrong direction during an endurance event. He was found in Algeria despite the race taking part in Morocco
rkG1 TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany