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TIL that on November 21st 1964 the FBI sent a package to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and in it was a letter that instructed him to commit suicide.

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oo4E TIL the US has been sending checks annually for $4,085 to Cuba for the lease of Guantanamo Bay. Since 1959, only one check has been cashed…Fidel Castro keeps the rest locked in his desk drawer.
BgMOb TIL id Software’s first attempt at a first-person shooter game - before Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, or even Catacomb 3-D - was Hovertank 3D, a vehicular combat FPS released for MS-DOS in 1991.
gRxW TIL Winston Churchill was half American by birth - a fact of which he was deeply proud.
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