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The Daily Extra #46

Martin Luther King Jr. paid Julia Roberts’ hospital bill

There are a lot of out of interesting facts about Martin Luther King Jr., but this one is definitely up there. Back in 1967, MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King covered the cost of Julia Roberts’ hospital birth. It turns out Roberts’ parents couldn’t afford the bill, and the Kings’ gesture was a heartfelt payback. Julia’s parents, who ran a theater school in Atlanta, welcomed the King children as students when they had trouble finding a place that would accept them because they were Black. 50 Weird Facts That Most People Don’t Know

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