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TIL Hugh Hefner helped Dick Gregory to fund a $25,000 reward to find the three civil rights workers who were kidnapped and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba, Mississippi, in 1964.

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VX0k TIL that besides the USA only 1 other nation has ever built a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, France.
8ro8 TIL that Saddam Hussein owned a Quran written in his own blood.
ByWe TIL a convict named Billy Hunt tried to escape Port Arthur prison by disguising himself as a kangaroo. The plan worked until a couple of hungry guards decided to supplement their rations with some kangaroo meat and took aim. Billy had no choice but to surrender.
RWr7 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing, “Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman”, illustrates the Medieval notion that sperm comes from the brain. [NSFW]
gV9D TIL the actual odds of 100 monkeys with typewriters randomly writing Shakespeare’s Hamlet are 1 in 36 x 10 to the 169,541st power.