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TIL that US purchased Alaska for 2 cents per acre

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pYAKN TIL author Maya Angelou was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. King was assassinated on her 40th birthday. For many years after she didn't celebrate her birthday only marking the occasion by reaching out to King's widow.
9Wam TIL that after his daughter’s killer went on the run, a 76-year-old hired 2 men to find, kidnap and turn him over to the authorities. The dad then received a one-year suspended sentence for kidnapping.
ekoE TIL J.R.R. Tolkien opposed holding Catholic mass in English - to the extent that he loudly responded in Latin whenever priests spoke the liturgy in English.
wDVo TIL Asperger syndrome is named for Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who described it in 1944. He called his patients “Little Professors.”
rRk64 TIL the Japanese word "Matchpump" マッチポンプ means "Stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution."