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TIL That after Martin Luther King Jr's death, his speech, "I Have a Dream," was issued as a single under "Gordy Records," this single managed to peak at 88 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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7881r TIL that the NYPD has a special beekeeping unit that was established in 2010 when beekeeping became legal in the city. In the last few weeks, they've relocated over 40,000 honeybees to orchards around the state. They most recently relocated 8,000 bees who swarmed 3 World Trade Center.
G554 TIL that Hitler’s chief architect, Albert Speer, was an adherent of the “theory of ruin value”: the architectural goal of constructing buildings that later collapse into aesthetically-pleasing ruins over the course of thousands of years.
6WGW TIL that a physics professor at NYU managed to publish a 100% bullshitted paper in a respected academic journal to show that they would publish anything that “sounded good and flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions”.
ADnmx TIL: Prince Edward, youngest son of Elizabeth II, was made Earl of Wessex on his wedding in 1999. He wanted that title, which hadn't existed for centuries, because he liked Colin Firth's character Lord Wessex in "Shakespeare in Love"
0wJdR TIL the pocket calculator, patented in 1967, was one of the earliest uses of rechargable batteries. One of the creators, Jerry Merryman, saw it not just as a pocket calculator, but as an "electionic revolution," bringing buttons, thermal printing, and rechargable batteries to the forefront.