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TIL about the Coastline Paradox which explains that's its impossible to accurately measure the length of a country's coastline and the more precise the measurement the greater the length becomes - to the point of infinity

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kOkWm TIL Martin Luther King Jr was uncompromisingly anti-capitalist and that his speeches before being assassinated increasingly focused on the economic and social issues faced by poor Americans
vWZ7 TIL of the “Tinker” supreme court case. In 1965 as a Vietnam War protest 3 kids wore black armbands to school. The school banned the armbands. They wore them again and were suspended. The “Tinker test” is used to see if a school’s disciplinary actions violate students’ 1st Amendment rights
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9x5G TIL that Tutankhamun’s body is not in a museum, but has been returned to his tomb.
89ra TIL Michael Fassbender had to choose between the roles of the Lizard in “The Amazing Spider-Man” and Magneto in “X-men: First Class”