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TIL The FBI audio recorded MLK having sex with women in various hotels, then tried to blackmail him into committing suicide due to their fear he was associated with the communist party.

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a8n7b TIL about the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and how the big old detour it takes all down the neck, under the aortic arch, and back up the neck is evidence for evolution.
160Ad TIL Minnesota is the only state to have consecutively voted blue in every presidential election since 1976 (past 13 elections), and the only state to have never voted for Reagan
LQO1V TIL that there's a room in the basement of Oregon State Hospital now known as, "The Room of Forgotten Souls." In 2004, several copper cans were discovered containing the remains of 3,600 psychiatric patients cremated on-site between 1917-1973.
6V9l TIL Nick Cave wrote a script for a Gladiator sequel in which Maximus fights Roman gods in the afterlife, is reincarnated, defends early Christians, and ultimately lives forever. Eventually leading tanks in the second world war and even working in the modern-day Pentagon.
mx7O TIL Donald Duck referred to a chemical compound 20 years before it was discovered by science.