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

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dD7pB TIL of the Triforce. A 2002 arcade board based on Gamecube hardware and jointly developed by Sega, Nintendo and Namco.
Oyve TIL that in 1972 three men hijacked an American DC-9 and demanded it be flown to Cuba where they hoped to strike a deal with Castro using the large ransom. Instead, Castro had them arrested and returned the aircraft, passengers, and money to the United States.
wLMeE TIL A Canadian teacher used his work issued laptop during a presentation to his Grade 6/7 class and “a picture of female genitalia from an internet ‘pop up’ was inadvertently projected onto the screen and was seen by students and an education assistant"
NLJQ TIL in 1859, an aurora was so powerful that it allowed telegraph operators to communicate without batteries and solely from the charge emitted from the aurora.
9wrX6 TIL in 2003 rapper Pusha T wrote the McDonald’s Jingle “I’m lovin’ it” but doesn’t own publishing rights for it. Learning from this mistake, he owns 40% from the next jingle he wrote: Arby's “we have the meats”.