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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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jjxv TIL Disney is developing a stand-alone film featuring Boba Fett, which would take place either between A New Hope and Empire or between Empire and Jedi.
eoLk TIL during World War II, the British secret service set up fake charities to distribute care packages with special copies of the board game Monopoly to prisoners of war in Germany. The game contained real compasses; metal files; French, German, and Italian money; and maps.
GYoxj TIL that in July 2012 an unusually large and strong release of magnetized plasma from the Sun missed the Earth by around nine days. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event that caused damage to electric equipment (mostly telegraph stations) worldwide.
j6PVn TIL Gerry Rafferty, famous for the song Baker Street and stuck in the middle with you with Steelers Wheel, was once in a folk-pop duo with famous Scottish comedian Billy Connolly .
78evM TIL Facebook lost about $700 billion in market capitalization after rebranding as Meta