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TIL that when MLK jr day was introduced, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas intentionally packaged the holiday together with the celebration of confederate general Robert E. Lee's birthday to avoid giving MLK jr. his own holiday.

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69EaZ TIL dogs see the invisible magnetic fields surrounding the Earth due to the Cryptochrome molecule in their eyes. This sense allows a dog to find their owners and homes when they've gotten lost many miles from home.
vP8lR TIL Jimmy Carter is the only living president to have won Texas as a democrat
9Ymdr TIL Keanu Reeves' John Wick salary was the same as his character's bounty; $2 million
Gl4J TIL the minimum wage for restaurant and bar workers in the USA is $2.13 per hour
7r0o7 TIL that a TV movie about nuclear war called The Day After (1983), starring Steve Guttenberg and Jon Lithgow, may have prevented nuclear war. When Ronald Reagan wrote about it he said it left him "greatly depressed". This lead to the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.