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TIL former college basketball coach George Raveling has the original, typewritten “I have a dream” speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. Raveling was a volunteer security guard at the event and King handed it to him after he finished addressing the audience. It is valued at over $3,000,000.

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9Y1MX TIL when a woman in Tokyo jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, a group of Sumo wrestlers from the Sakaigawa-beya heya helped to pull the woman from the water; she had no life-threatening injuries. ("heya" literally means "room" but is normally translated in English as "stable").
W7p7B TIL Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization for women barbershop harmony singers
dDw1r TIL when Led Zeppelin were set to perform in Denmark in 1970, Eva von Zeppelin, a relative of the Zeppelin creator, threatened to sue the band for using her family name and for the cover of the band’s debut album. To avoid any controversy, Led Zeppelin performed in Copenhagen as “The Nobs”.
j6pWN TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military conducted “Operation Popeye,” a cloud-seeding operation to extend the monsoon season – The goal was to disrupt enemy supply lines by creating heavy rains.
VMAaB TIL that a speices of eastern african baboon and Ethiopian wolf are working together in what appears to be the early signs of domestication. The wolves show a large increase in foraging and food supply amongst the herds of the baboons.