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TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta threw him a dinner party that was almost cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola’s CEO threatened to move the company out of Atlanta since he thought it was embarrassing that the city’s people wouldn’t honor their Nobel Prize winner.

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kORN4 TIL the last German troops to surrender after World War II were a group of soldiers stationed at a meteorological station on Svalbard. They lost radio contact in May 1945 and were unable to radio for support until August 1945. They were picked up by Norwegian seal hunters on September 4.
7peM TIL Sleeping Beauty was raped by the prince in the original Grimm Fairy Tales
xYok TIL 95% of the body’s “happiness hormone, serotonin, is found in the bowels.
P9AO TIL that Japanese Macaque monkeys in 1953 started washing their food before consuming it. They now evolved to seasoning it!
yVOkv TIL Jehovah's Witnesses will die over accepting blood transfusions due to religious reasons.