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

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LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
xn10 TIL that at his death in 1937, John D. Rockefeller’s fortune accounted for more than 1.5% of the US GDP, equivalent to $250 billion in today’s money
rNRLe TIL about Borneo’s enigmatic diamond deposits and how scientists believe some of them come from the split off from Australia
weLP TIL George Lucas once said, “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”
4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.