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TIL that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech reached 69 as a single on Billboard's Hot 100 chart

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bkVp TIL The opposite phenomenon of a déjà vu exists and is called jamais vu. It could be described as a person who does not recognise a word or, a person or place, despite rationally knowing that its known already.
PYWOg TIL the human foot is one of the heaviest sweat producers on the body and contains 250,000 sweat glands. However, these eccrine glands produce sweat of mostly water and salt meant to cool you, and it has very little odor on its own.
XEAKP TIL a former schoolteacher hit 3.2 million miles with the car he bought in 1966. Road-tripping Irv Gordon passed away recently, holding the world record of highest vehicle mileage with his Volvo P1800S
ANgVa TIL PT Barnum's intended 'Jenny Lind Hall' wasn't complete in time for the opera singer's U.S. tour. Establishing opera for the masses in the U.S., her shows were a smash hit. The theater later became NY Metropolitan Hall.
OoMpL TIL that Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and would prank visitors to his ranch by driving down a hill into his lake while yelling that he had bad brakes