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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. Plagiarized His Research Papers, Doctoral Dissertation, and Speeches

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4rwJ TIL ‘No Animals Were Harmed’ only applies while film is actually recording
WkKPY TIL Radioactive Spark Plugs were sold in the 1940s under the theory the radiation made the engine run better.
9g76 TIL that a paedophile had a brain tumor removed and with it, his paedophillic tendencies. When the tumor grew again in the same spot, his paedophile urges grew once more, and disappeared once again after the second growth was surgically removed.
E1K8o TIL of a simian crease, it’s a single crease that goes across the hand where as most people have two or three, very few people have a simian crease.
8aNxZ TIL in 2003, a woman found a stolen painting worth $1 million in the trash on a NYC curb. She felt it "had power" and took it without knowing its origin or value. She spent 4 years researching it and discovered it’d been stolen in 1987. She got a $15,000 reward plus a % of its $1,049,000 sale price.