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TIL Martin Luther King Sr was also a civil rights activist who lived until 1984

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awKoA TIL that Michael Keaton's character in "Beetlejuice" is actually "Betelgeuse" (named after the star), and that Burton wanted Sammy Davis Jr in the role
KnyE TIL that on August 25, 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot and killed in Arlington, VA. Hearing of his son’s death, Rockwell’s father said: “I am not surprised at all. I’ve expected it for quite some time.”
xVrR5 TIL that APA Hotel group, one of Japan's substantial hotel chains, have its own CEO author a historical revitionistic book that denies the Nanking Massacre, and having said book be available on every single room in their hotels.
XEp66 TIL the artist Camille Corot is one of the most forged artists ever. He had a lazy attitude towards copies. He would sign replicas and even loan his works to professional copiers. Efforts to stop this by publicizing his art backfired, when forgers used the catalogues as guides to refine their fakes.
LyBp TIL The Danish ministry of the Enviroment has released, for free, a 1:1 virtual model of Denmark for Minecraft (Link is in Danish, but I’ll poste link to translated site in comments)