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TIL in 1964 white business leaders in Atlanta refused to buy tickets to an event honoring recent Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King. Coca-Cola recognized the potential PR disaster and threatened to leave the city unless people attended. The event sold out the next day.

mxNYy TIL that Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life.
pY5r8 TIL that a Vocaloid songwriter and musician attempted to murder his girlfriend on May 31st, 2024
Lrmr TIL Samuel L. Jackson started using the word “motherfucker” to overcome his lifelong stuttering problem
WklMA TIL For years, NFL ignored concussion evidence
N8eP TIL Most body fat exits the body through exhaling.