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TIL MLK told 60 Minutes that “A riot is the language of the unheard”

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Zj4R TIL that from 7 September 1978 to 9 May 1989 skateboards were illegal in Norway. For 11 years Norway was the only country in the world where it was forbidden to buy, sell or stand on a skateboard.
Eg5rV TIL that the Micronesian island of Yap uses giant boulders as a form of currency.
1avy4 TIL That the most complicated IED ever seen by the FBI was planted by a disgruntled former Luftwaffe pilot and Gulag prisoner after he lost all his money gambling in a casino. The FBI failed in defusing the bomb and the casino where it was planted was destroyed.
Y7g4v TIL Martin Winterkorn The former Volkswagen CE0 is an international fugitive. He was indicted by the United States, And Germany and is wanted by the Environmental Protection Agency for Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Conspiracy to violate the Clea Air Act.
JYGj TIL China tried to pass off footage from the movie ‘Top Gun’ as footage of their air force