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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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YAkx TIL of the Yaghan word “Mamihlapinatapai”; the world’s hardest to translate word which allegedly means “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin”
nWWVW Today I learned the Bonneville Salt Flats is up to 5 feet thick in some parts and is 90% common table salt, so theoretically if you need some salt…
BrYAL TIL about Dolbear's Law which is a formula for using crickets as a thermometer
9wD5D TIL that the barber pole became the universal symbol for barbers as it resembles the bloody bandages of “barber-surgeons” of the past, who practiced bloodletting.
d6oE TIL that in 1972 some of Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger’s crew carried out two-dozen acts of sabotage to prevent the ship from returning to Vietnam