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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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w8WW TIL that one of the most famous pubs in Australia is the Young and Jackson Hotel. It is famous for its portrait “Chloe” of a very nude 19 years old girl, which hangs over one of the bars. It was considered scandalous at the time, but still hangs there.
X8Br TIL the cargo hold of the largest plane in service, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, is longer than the first flight taken by the Wright brothers.
mxX9E TIL Compared with hunter-gatherers, industrialized peoples’ intestines have fewer kinds of microbes—and are missing at least one major group of ancient bacteria. Yet even with all of these extra microbes, hunter-gatherers have fewer gut ailments, such as Crohn’s disease, colitis, and colon cancer.
PYggg TIL Pornhub has a branch of their network called “Pornhub Cares” where they focus on humanitarian efforts. Some of their causes are breast and testicular cancer research, planting trees, and funding student college scholarships.
4kPvX TIL For 60 years preceding the black death epidemic of 1347, Italy and Florence in particular were struck with repeated famines, partially because of a series extreme weather events, such as unprecedented floods and cold snaps which killed crops, each of them killing thousands of people.