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TIL in 1999 in a civil case conducted by the King family, the jury ruled that Martin Luther King Jr. had been a victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police and as well as federal agencies.

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p8EGQ TIL toilet paper originated in China around AD 589 but was not commercially packaged until 1857 by New York entrepreneur Joseph Gayetty. It was marketed as “The greatest necessity of the age!”
Vgj8 TIL that a Belgian man who was being evicted from his home when he cheated with his wife, rigged his house up with over 20 firearm traps. He even made a riddle for the next home owners but accidently shot himself with one of the traps. The Military anti-mining team took 3 weeks to disarm 19 traps.
epa8b TIL the London Bridge built in the 1830s, that spanned the River Thames was auctioned off and sold in 1968, was purchased from the City of London for $2,460,000. It was disassemble, shipped across the Atlantic, through the Panama canal, eventually reassembled in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
mn7x TIL Millionaire Harris Rosen gave a Florida neighborhood free daycare and scholarships to all high school graduates. This raised the graduation rate from 25% to 100% and cut crime in half.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.