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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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QDmM TIL Ray and Edith Batman sued the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the USA in 1951, leading to the humorous case title ‘Batman v. Commissioner’
pYvaG TIL the longest living dog was "Bluey", an Australian Cattle Dog, who was born June 7, 1910 and died 29 years, 160 days later, on November 14, 1939.
16QRP TIL that Missouri is likely called the Show-Me State in reference to a speech from a Congressman in 1899: "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
9YxWp TIL The Coco Bongo Club from "The Mask" really exists, and is owned by Jim Carrey
PWkg TIL The Economist received a letter from Boston protesting their usage of “niggardly,” an adjective meaning stingy or miserly, because it sounded like the racial slur. The magazine, based in Britain, responded with, “Why do we get such letters only from America?”