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

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4kRZa TIL Ahmed Gabr set the deepest scuba dive of all time in 2014, reaching a depth of 1,090 feet. He spent almost a decade preparing for the dive, which took only 15 minutes to descend but over 13 hours to ascend back to the surface.
GY1J4 TIL that the very first western film to play on North Korean state TV was Bend It Like Beckham in order to celebrate a decade of diplomatic ties to the UK
MeDkb TIL about Juneteenth: an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans throughout the former Confederate States of America.
9MZX TIL in 2012 there more deaths in active military due to suicide than war death
9YPVX TIL that in a 1996 study, 34% of non-homophobic males and 80% of homophobic males became aroused with gay porn. The study used 64 straight males.