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TIL Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is owned by CBS and it is illegal to distribute it

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YpweB TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegan, teenage sisters who lured, ambushed and killed German Nazis from their bicycles—and never revealed how many they had assassinated.
ngQP TIL a professor proposed a policy of automatic retaliation that would serve to end rocket attacks on Israel. If a rocket was fired at Israel an automated missile would fire at a arbitrary spot in Gaza without human input, meaning if militants rocketed Israel they would also be rocketing themselves.
4XLDo TIL The oldest known written complaint, is a clay tablet from ancient Babylon written c. 1750 BCE.
PYNZJ TIL that when Joseph Stalin was dying, his private physician was not available because he was already being tortured in the basement of the KGB headquarters for suggesting the Soviet leader required more bed rest.
MdjK TIL the death of Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady, was ruled a homicide when he died 33 years after being shot in the head.