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TIL in 1964, the FBI attempted to blackmail MLK Jr and urged him to commit suicide in an attempt to undermine the civil rights movement

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XEw4Q TIL Prior to allying with the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro was a political celebrity in the US, celebrated as a liberator and modern day Robin Hood.
8e9Ma TIL For a brief period in 1930 in the US you could purchase special postage stamps to have your letters delivered via zepplin
jjmR TIL Kurt Cobain’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington has a welcome sign that says “Welcome to Aberdeen: Come As You Are”
nW44B TIL about Sci-Hub, a shadowy online library that bypasses paywalls to allow people to access over 50 million research papers for free, all in the interest of public knowledge.
QJXeL TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.