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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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W7ZQd TIL Taco Bell has tried to enter the Mexican market two times - in 1992 and 2007. Failed both times. It was too expensive, people didn't understand what they were ordering because the names of the food didn't make sense to Mexicans and Taco Bell used frozen meat imported from the US.
BgmyK TIL during a scene in The Shawshank Redemption in which a crow was to be fed a maggot, the American Humane Society objected against the idea of a live animal being killed for the scene meaning the team had to find and use a maggot that had died of natural causes.
VBBkk TIL Pickleball is the official sport of Washington State, and was invented here in 1965.
KOdd4 TIL during the making of ‘Borat,’ the police were called 92 times on Sacha Baron Cohen.
b9Lrp TIL the early Essex class carriers of WWII had a bizarre hangar deck catapult across the lower deck of the ship in order to launch scout planes out the side of the ship.