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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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wLGAP TIL Karl Marx has a living great-great-grandson named Joseph Marx who does parkour for money outside of a McDonalds in Kingston, UK
9Yvdr TIL In 2014, an Arizona man escaped prison to meet with his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. The man crawled past razor wire, scaled two fences and made his way to a bar about 10 miles away.
MeLDW TIL that Dr. Seuss used to make Unorthodox Taxidermy of his mythical creatures
gdY9 TIL The same 9,500 person town in Oregon was the filming location for The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy I and II, The Ring Two, and The Guardian, along with others, and it was where the TV Show Dexter was set to end.
p41O TIL John Pike, the infamous UC Davis “Pepper Spray Cop” made an annual salary of $121,680 before leaving after 8 months paid leave after the incident.