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

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4oY5 TIL that had the Axis powers won World War 2, Hitler was saddened that the white race from Australia and New Zealand would disappear under Japan’s eventual colonization of the countries.
JXRl TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.
MeYbV TIL the reason why Amish grow beards but shave their mustaches is to represent their pacifism. The Amish associate mustaches with the military and thus they shave their mustaches to show they would never serve in warfare. The Amish who did serve did so in the Civilian Service Corps.
WkDod TIL That more than 24 billion gallons of combined untreated sewage and stormwater is dumped into the Great Lakes each year.
M7yb TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.