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TIL that the Vatican has a crime rate of 133.6%
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TIL A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, instead of actor James Earl Jones. When officials received their plaque they were horrified to discover that it bore an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for “keeping the dream alive”
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TIL The first modern Olympic medalist was kicked from Harvard because he went to the Olympics after a denied leave of absence
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TIL one of the 9/11 Hijackers Ziad Jarrah wanted to be a pilot since he was 5. His father forbid that due to his fears that his only son might die in a crash
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TIL that Morzillo, the horse Hernán Cortes rode in the conquest of Tenochtitlan, was worshipped as a thunder deity by a nearby tribe for over a century
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TIL that Minnie Mouse's full name is actually Minerva