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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was a follower of Gandhi and believed in the non violence method to get rid of oppression.

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X60k TIL that the U.S. Military has an official ban in place on all of Soulja Boy’s music
EdMV TIL The Atlantic ran an essay in 1939 titled “I Married A Jew.” The author complained her Jewish husband was “clannish” and too tough on Hitler. “100 years hence the world will no more call Hitler a swine for expelling the Jews”
OGeW1 TIL that after a mention that Paul McCartney liked Jelly Babies, fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles kept getting hit.
r5Z0 TIL the wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute.
x6lKD TIL that the killer in the first modern detective novel was an orangutan