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TIL that sales of caps and gowns for kindergarten and elementary school graduations grow when the economy is bad due to a desire to celebrate good things during hard times

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R7eW9 Today I learned that James Earl Ray, who killed MLK Jr., escaped prison in 1977 but was caught 3 days later due to the harsh wilderness. He only trekked 8 miles.
5Y1Pn TIL Julius Ceaser was assassinated on the 15th March in 44BC, better known as the Ides of March. His assailants (60 members) were members of the senate and one of them was Ceasers best friend, Marcus Brutus. After the assassination, the Senate passed an amnesty on the assassins.
5YW8n TIL Janet Jackson gifted Larry King a pair of suspenders with open holes around the nipples. "I wore them once, they were cute."
pkl4 TIL there’s a Flight 666 registered with Finnair that has traveled to HEL (Helsinki), on multiple occasions of Friday the Thirteen.
9YPj7 TIL when the Northridge Earthquake caused a massive power outage in L.A. in 1994, panicked residents called 911 to express alarm about a strange ethereal light overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way Galaxy for the first time.