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TIL that UN deems Internet access a basic human right

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JY741 TIL that Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated. A deranged man who believed Christianity was harming African Americans gunned her down as she played the organ in church. He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.
jN5ma TIL the first recorded known incident of mooning was in the first century AD. The procurator of the region in which it took place was named Cumanus
m1vmM TIL in 2017, Saudi Arabia accidentally printed school textbooks which included an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal at the signing of the U.N. Charter in 1945
yQxYe TIL The earliest recorded epidemic dates back to the Peloponnesian War, 430 BC. he ancient Greek historian Thucydides described the symptoms of a disease believed to be typhoid fever. Known as the Great Athenian Plague, it killed about 100,000 people, or two-thirds of the population there.
DW1Y TIL a homeless cat sneaked into a lynx’s enclosure in a Leningrad zoo, then the two became best friends