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TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast for defamation for using her name in a song title. Outkast eventually settled by creating educational programs on Parks’ impact on America

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1gaV TIL that Bill Nye isn’t a physicist. He’s a mechanical engineer!
4eaR TIL, for the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about 10 feet tall, which was taller than they were known to be and had dinosaur fans everywhere complaining. During filming, paleontologists uncovered 10-foot-tall specimens of raptors called Utahraptors.
XEg5P TIL The Red-lipped Batfish, found around the Galapagos Island, have modified fins that are completely un-fish-like. The fish rests on the sea floor, it can move on its pectoral and pelvic fins as if it was walking
OoGQL In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic explorer and volcanologist Stephanie Grocke explains what might be driving Santiaguito’s almost hourly eruptions.
5yRp TIL 125 people where shot crossing the Berlin wall whereas an estimated 6000 people died trying to cross the Mexico-US border in the past 15 years.