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TIL-Martin Luther King Jr was once stabbed in the chest, which only deepened his commitment to nonviolence.

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a8dZZ TIL that drawing the time on a clock is a test used to check for signs of dementia
6n4Q TIL that in 1970 the US Postal Service decided on a strike after a Congressional decision to raise the wages of postal workers by only 4%, at the same time as Congress raised its own pay by 41%
l7bOG TIL I learned that the eggs of sea urchin produce hydrogen peroxide after fertilization.
kVj1 TIL that Thor Heyerdahl stated that ancient people from South America could have settled in Polynesia, but most anthropologists didn’t believe him. So in 1947 he built a primitive raft and made the 101-day journey himself.
EgO0p TIL: Husbands are six times more likely than wives to leave when their partner is diagnosed with a serious illness.