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TIL Citizens of the UK have the right to see CCTV footage of themselves and get a copy within 40 days of asking for it.

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b9wJE TIL Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral
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LPkp TIL that in 1976 Olympic relay the flame was transmitted as a radio signal from Greece to Canada, triggering a laser beam to relight the fire.
VxX4 TIL that when Henry Ford explained his idea of a gasoline powered car to Thomas Edison, Edison encouraged Ford that he “had it”. Ford claimed later that “No man up to then had given me any encouragement”.
a8LB9 TIL Karl Marx almost emigrated with his family to the Texas Hill Country in 1845 alongside a large number of German dissidents, freethinkers, and anti-slavery advocates who would come to strongly support the Union and the Republican Party.