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TIL in 2014 a man maced a Gamestop employee because Sonic the Hedgehog’s arms were blue rather than flesh coloured in Sonic Boom

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Z5da TIL MLK Jr’s birth name was Micheal King Jr. His father changed both their names after traveling to Germany and becoming inspired by the works of Martin Luther.
x6ya1 TIL a 17-year-old boy blew up a Starbucks in 2009 to emulate Tyler Durden.
lJbN TIL that the reason the 1918 Flu Epidemic is called The Spanish Flu is because Spain was one of the few countries where the government didn’t censor the actual death tolls. This made people think Spain had been hit especially hard.
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