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TIL when an underwater bubble is popped with a soundwave, it produces light. After 70 years of trying, scientists still can’t explain it

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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
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