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TIL Six years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while playing the organ at her church

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0wn65 TIL the lyricist for the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon (Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!) won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
b94pE TIL: the 1973 Cheech & Chong song "Basketball Jones" features George Harrison & Carole King.
n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.
xV4Ng TIL that Bill Nye's first TV appearance was a stand up comedy routine filled with dirty jokes.
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