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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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nW8MG TIL about Zamor, a child who was kidnapped by British slave traders and eventually sold to King Louis XV, who gifted him to a mistress. He would later turn against her during the French Revolution, before being imprisoned himself as an accomplice.
eppEn TIL the recycle looking symbol on all plastics does not mean it is recyclable
Dbje TIL that a man planted 7,000 trees to make a guitar shaped forest as tribute to his late wife.
5MaD TIL In the early days of FedEx, CEO Fred Smith took the company’s last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill.
P14JV TIL that the first footage of a real war was shot by Frederick Villiers during the Battle of Volos in 1897