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TIL Beaver Moon: Full Moon in November 2023
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TIL that in 1981 Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, played Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X, in a TV movie about Malcolm X's assassination. Malcolm was played by Morgan Freeman in an early dramatic role.
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TIL of the Order of Brothelyngham, a mock Catholic order that satirized corrupt medieval clergy by electing a lunatic as abbot and kidnapping local citizens.
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TIL that every year, Western Europeans alone collectively lose about 1.6 million years of healthy life because of traffic noise.
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TIL “money laundering" originated with the Italian mafia and criminals such as Al Capone, who purchased 'Laundromats' to mix their illegal profits from prostitution and bootlegged liquor sales with legitimate business sales from the 'Laundromats' to conceal their illegal profit.
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TIL I learned about the 1962 Tanganyika Laughter epidemic that started with the laughter of one student and passed along to the rest of the school and other communities, causing 14 school closures in total