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TIL that Michael King changed his name to Martin Luther King Sr. after a 1934 trip to Berlin where he witnessed the rise of Nazism. In addition to the murder of his famous son in 1968, another son died from drowning in 1969, and his wife was murdered in 1974.

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Eg4Lp TIL that the French military has a long tradition of organising brothels for its soldiers, both at bases and near front lines, including in the Algerian and Vietnamese wars. The last one at a base closed in 2003
e0EKn TIL of 3,500 mosquito species a few hundred bite humans. The larvae are food for other larvae and for beneficial insects, put nutrients into many ecosystems, are food for fish, help break down debris in waterways, and pollinate plants. But scientists think ecosystems will adjust if we eliminate them
Jkwm TIL that three years after signing with Don King, Mike Tyson didn’t even know that he had a fan club. When he finally went there, he found a letter from a woman wondering if Tyson could call her dying child. Tyson called, “hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.”
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