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TIL Rosa Parks was not the first black person to be arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, and far from being a diminutive seamstress, Parks was a political organizer and activist, a member of the Montgomery Voters League and secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP

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gMB4D TIL: 6 years after resigning, Nixon testified on behalf of former FBI assistant director Mark Felt at Felt's own trial, and gave money to Felt's defense fund. In 2005 Felt revealed he had been "Deep Throat", Bob Woodward's source while breaking the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation.
yVKeJ TIL the term "Going Postal" originates from the 1986 Edmond Post Office Shooting where postal worker Patrick Sherill killed 14 coworkers making it the deadliest workplace shooting in US history
ByBk TIL that all our issues with open internet/net neutrality and the lack of provider options comes from an FCC ruling on March 14th, 2002. The man who made that decision is now head of the cable industry trade group.
NEyN TIL Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis didn’t talk from 1956 to 1976 & remained estranged until 1987. That’s when Martin’s son was killed in a plane crash. When Martin found out Lewis secretly attended the funeral, he called his old partner and patched things up & remained close until Martin’s 1995 death.
AXQa TIL Bob Dylan’s guitar from the controversial 1965 concert where he “went electric” was missing for almost 50 years. After it was found and authenticated, it sold at auction in 2013 for a record-setting $965,000.