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TIL that MLK Jr has a statue in Westminster Abby for being a “Modern Martyr”

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WkKL8 TIL about Saturn (alligator). It was hatched in Mississippi, lived in the Berlin Zoo during the war, was one of the 96 out of 16,000 animals to survive the war, and then proceeded to live in the Moscow Zoo until it died in 2020
WR8L TIL: in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
P1VeO TIL Pagash is a Slavic Lenten food found in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania. It is made from mashed potatoes, dough, and cheese. It is sometimes referred as as "Polish pizza" or "Slavic pizza".
D1xXv TIL the first line in the first feature-length film with sound was, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet."
Z8x0v TIL of Peter O'Connor, an Irish Olympian forced to compete under Great Britain due to a rule change. Unhappy with this, he smuggled in a green Irish flag and proceeded to scale Britain's flag pole during the award ceremony. He waved his flag at the top while his teammate guarded the bottom.