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TIL FBI sent a letter to MLK trying to convince him to commit suicide.

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Bl0D TIL Actor and explorer Brian Blessed met Pablo Picasso when he was a 12. Disbelieving it was Picasso, Blessed asked him to draw a picture. Picasso drew a peace dove, and Blessed threw it away. Somebody saved the drawing. It’s reportedly worth £50 million.
9npD TIL the French word for ‘walkie-talkie’ is 'talkie-walkie’.
1BRD TIL that a decree promulgated on November 12, 1787, by Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II ordered all Jews in the Hapsburg Empire to acquire family names.
GYaAj TIL the first SWAT team was created just to deal with bank robberies. However, it was so successful that the scope of SWAT use was extended to various other high-risk situations - in fact, nowadays 80% of SWAT operations are search warrants, mainly for narcotics.
OowN6 TIL the celebrity crooner Frank Sinatra not only was tied up to the mob for life as they had helped him with his career, but he also owned casino's at Lake Tahoe and elsewhere in the area.