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TIL Rosa Parks hired Johnnie Cochran to sue Outkast and LaFace Records for Outkast’s 1998 Song “Rosa Parks”

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W7GDA TIL about the Thanksgiving Day Disaster, leading to the deaths of 23 people watching college football in San Francisco in 1900.
MeE4B TIL nunchucks are illegal in the US because the court ruled that they are "designed primarily as a weapon and has no purpose other than to maim or kill", and are "widely used by muggers and street gangs".
woZgY TIL that Ben and Jerry's has a graveyard for discontinued ice cream flavors.
Dmjr TIL that when the members of Steely Dan found out that the plot of “You, Me and Dupree” was stolen from one of their songs they wrote a letter demanding that Owen Wilson come to one of their concerts and apologize onstage or they would have one of their roadies beat him up.
D1ZRg TIL: A group of participants received a mug and were told they owned it; a second group was only shown the mug. When asked how much they would be willing to sell the mugs for, their asking price was more than twice of the second group. The “endowment effect“; we overvalue what we feel we own.