💬 Quoted…​​ “The King family paid for my hospital bills... And so, they just all became friends [with my parents] and they helped us out of a jam."
The quote above comes from a recent interview that actress Julia Roberts gave for a History Channel documentary series. The King family in question? None other than civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King, who the actress revealed paid for her parents’ hospital bill in 1967 – the same stay during which she was born.
📝 Stat of the Day: More than a third of the ~850 million user profiles on LinkedIn contain “inaccurate or misleading information,” including false employment history, degrees earned, and certifications received, per a recent survey from LendEDU.
🤯 Did You Know?... Many of America’s founding fathers were surprisingly young. As of July 4, 1776, Marquis de Lafayette was 18, Alexander Hamilton was 21, James Madison was 25, Thomas Jefferson was 33, and George Washington was 44.
📖 Worth a Read: 1991: The Most Important Year in Pop-Music History → (The Atlantic)
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