› added 11 years ago

213

TIL Martin Luther King, Jr. plagiarized his doctoral dissertation.

Read more mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu

via reddit.com

LQlPV TIL the 1998 film "Your Friends & Neighbors" is the first film to be reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes.
l7BZA TIL that the Diomede Islands are only 2 miles apart but have a 21-hour time difference.
MN0A TIL the Federal Tax Code is 73,954 pages long. One hundred years ago it was only 400 pages.
WkMeN TIL that Bethesda (creators of Skyrim) promised to give lifetime free Bethesda games to anyone who named their newborn child "Dovahkiin" on 11/11/11. Turns out, one family did it. Dovahkiin will be turning 8 this year.
AVnd TIL Julian Assange has been stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy longer than his maximum prison sentence would be, should he have been convicted in Sweden.