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

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4XLDo TIL The oldest known written complaint, is a clay tablet from ancient Babylon written c. 1750 BCE.
awQX9 TIL that atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14 psi. In other words, your small kitchen table has the weight of like 10 cars on it. And the only reason it doesn't collapse is because the weight of 10 cars is also pushing UP from the bottom (and in all directions). Tis a thiccc atmosphere.
GYdRN TIL Graveyards for unclaimed remains are called "potter's field" because "potter's fields" were places where clay was harvested, and left with unfilled holes and barren soil. Historically, they were used as a cheap and efficient way to inter unclaimed human remains, on land nobody wanted.
oBjXE TIL taxi drivers in Cuba make 40 times more than doctors do
oXmE TIL that more than 80 percent of clinical data is “fabricated” in China according to China’s own food and drug regulator.