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TIL The second incarnation of CBS Corporation was actually the legal successor of the original Viacom

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90Qp TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed just as he was organizing a poor people’s campaign demanding universal basic income and criticizing the government for spending more on war and stifling social programs.
vE1L TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters
wLxeJ TIL that every day the average human heart pumps over 1800 gallons of blood through veins and other vessels
AVdx TIL that the programmer for the Original Doom, John Carmack, broke into a school to steal an Apple II computer using home-made thermite; he later went to juvenile detention and forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Y7Zmr TIL in the 1950s the average height of a Japanese man was 4'11