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TIL Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Considered a Presidential Run in 1967

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KOoL6 TIL of President Husni al-Za'im , who after taking over the Syrian government tried to give women right to vote, did not execute anyone during his reign and tried to make peace with Israel.
JYvAQ TIL Kanye West has found success as a fashion designer—but he was actually rejected from studying at the world’s most famous fashion school, Central Saint Martins, because he’s “too famous.”
PYprZ TIL: Robert Fortune was a Scottish man who infiltrated the Chinese tea industry in the 19th century, eventually smuggling out tea plants and revealing that the Chinese had been dying their tea with hazardous dyes, effectively ended the Chinese tea industry at the time.
VxAm TIL of Yi Qi, a small feathered and winged dinosaur. While many dinosaurs had feathers and what could be called “wings” in a sense, Yi Qi had a bat-like membrane connecting its third finger to its side, making it look like a real world dragon (or wyvern for pedantry).
MePk8 TIL A sacrifice zone is a geographic area that has been permanently impaired by environmental damage or economic disinvestment, often through locally unwanted land use. The term commonly applies to industrial areas, like lead smelters, that have not been maintained or do not meet modern standards.