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TIL Four days after the Hillsborough disaster, in the European Cup semi-final between AC Milan v Real Madrid, the referee blew his whistle two minutes into the game to stop play and hold a minute’s silence for those who lost their lives. Halfway through, AC Milan fans sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.

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0xWj TIL that MLK said civil rights’ biggest enemy wasn’t racist folks like the KKK, but the “white moderate,” who is “more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice” and “constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.’”
DQe7e TIL that a neutron star is the densest known substance in the universe. A tablespoon of neutron star weighs more than Mount Everest.
4k6WX TIL David Bowie used to travel around in New York carrying a Greek newspaper in the belief that people would assume he was just a Greek man who looked like David Bowie and leave him alone.
M7JYW TIL that people were unaware that TNT was explosive and used it as a yellow dye instead of its destructive potential.
R7XJl TIL James Earl Jones was the first celebrity guest star on Sesame Street.