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TIL A Black Woman Attempted to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. She was later diagnosed with Schizophrenia.

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X5XP TIL the Inuit conquered the Arctic from a now-extinct people called the Dorset. The Dorset were allegedly larger and stronger than the Inuit but not warlike and easily scared off.
xVWj1 TIL the city of Carmel, IN has the most roundabouts per city in the US, with a total of 138. Since regular intersections were replaced with roundabouts, the number of accidents here has reduced by 40%.
vP5v8 TIL: Potcake is breed of dog fed the caked remains of cooking pots. It's believed that the original Potcake derived from the Labrador, German Shepherd and Fox Terrier breeds.
RJA4 TIL in 1933 America’s most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representatives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him in a coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government.
Y7e6x TIL Thomas Edison coined the term "Bug" when a machine doesn't work decades before Grace Hopper found a dead moth in a computer in the 1940s, which is where most people attribute its origins to.