› added 1 year ago

37

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

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XEbOE TIL that my favorite time of day actually has a name and begins when the geometric center of the sun is 6° below the horizon and lasts until the sunrise.
9wkNQ TIL about the "Book of Negroes", an official record of 3,000 Black Loyalists, mostly former slaves, evacuated to Nova Scotia (and freedom) after the American Revolutionary War
wopZ7 TIL that bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.
N78nJ TIL of the ancient Greek letter "digamma" (or "wau") that made a "w" sound. It used to begin, for example, the word "oinos" ("woinos"), which is Greek for "wine."
MeLpK TIL that Phobos, one of the martian moons, is slowly spiraling inward to eventual destruction and Mars will eventually have a ring