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TIL the lawyers of Rosa Parks sued Outkast in 1999.
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TIL from 1916 to 1917, Felix von Luckner of Imperial Germany led the SMS Seeadler, a sailing ship, to attack Allied merchant ships
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TIL of the frog known as the “Hairy Frog”, “Horror Frog”, or the “Wolverine Frog” that is so aggressive it will literally break its own bones, force them through the skin, then use them as claws to attack; even humans.
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TIL In 1944, Helen Martini was hired as the Bronx Zoo's first female keeper after successfully raising 3 tiger cubs. She was famous for treating animals in her Bronx apartment-sometimes despite the complaints of neighbors-including gorillas, marmosets, baby deer, antelope, squirrels, and skunks.
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TIL the phrase “Bury the Hatchet” comes from a centuries-old practice seen among the Native American tribes of North America. Chiefs would meet and bury their weapons as a symbolic gesture of peace, “…buried so far into the earth so as to never be seen again.”
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TIL The U.S. navy has the world's only open ocean research platform that is able to tilt 90 degrees upright allowing research to be performed that no other water vessel is capable of performing due to its extreme stability while upright.