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TIL that Yolanda King (the eldest daughter of MLK JR.) was worried when meeting Attallah Shabazz (the daughter of Malcolm X) they wouldn't get along because of their father's legacies. They found common ground and created "Stepping into Tomorrow" a play about the issues their father's fought for.

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aEWb TIL when the incident at Chernobyl took place, three men sacrificed themselves by diving into the contaminated waters and draining the valve from the reactor which contained radioactive materials. Had the valve not been drained, it would have most likely spread across most parts of Europe.
Y7gMd TIL in 2014, John Wick, then known as Scorn, had no distributor as late as 2 months before its release and came very close to going direct-to-DVD.
9jd6 TIL that the face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who’s dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.
R74m1 TIL Saharan silver ants can travel at 108 body lengths a second. This makes them one of the fastest known running species.
Q4mp TIL Beards have some surprising health benefits. They can help with asthma sufferers, since beard follicles trap allergens. They also can protect skin from the sun’s radiation, keeping one looking younger underneath his man-mane.