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TIL before his assassination, almost two-thirds of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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Bgr5D TIL a commercial for the Cocoa Pebbles cereal led Hulk Hogan to sue the company. The commercial had a character named Hulk Boulder fighting Flinstones characters. He claimed it damaged his reputation and used his image. Hogan and the company came to an agreement to never show the ad again.
0dPLN TIL about Zhang Shangwu, a Chinese gymnast who won two gold medals at the 2001 Beijing but became homeless after a torn Achilles tendon . Zhang performed street gymnastics and sold his medals for around $15 each.
RBpa TIL Ozzy Osbourne donated $10,000 to a music school for underprivileged children after watching their rendition of “Crazy Train”
d8aa9 TIL that Lebanon made a massive bowl of hummus to get into the Guiness Book of World Records just so people around the world can recognise that hummus is from Lebanon
wLZPY TIL that the United States has more in-service Aircraft Carriers than the rest of the world combined.