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TIL the lawyers of Rosa Parks sued Outkast in 1999.

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69N4W TIL Arthur Ashe published a three-volume book in 1988 titled A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete. He worked with researchers for nearly six years on the book and later stated that the book meant more to him than any of his tennis titles.
bPQ4 TIL that in 6 days Queen Elizabeth will become the longest reigning British Monarch
VMV98 TIL that Chernobyl firefighter Vladimir Pravik's eyes are believed to have changed from brown to blue due to the radiation exposure
kWyB TIL Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie “Predator”.
b9Yga TIL Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is being eaten alive by millions of venomous sea stars known as crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). Scientist have developed a new robot to hunt and kill these sea stars—a murderous, autonomous underwater vehicle called RangerBot. It kills with a single shot of bile