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TIL That Rosa Parks sued Outkast in 1999 for defamation

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gMeOX TIL Mel Gibson was not born in Australia. He was born in Peekskill, New York, an hour north of Manhattan. His family moved to Australia when he was 12.
EgPDX TIL Benjamin Franklin had proposed a phonetic alphabet for spelling reform of the English language. He wanted to omit the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, as he had found them redundant.
yVQK8 TIL there's a restaurant in Amsterdam called Ctaste where patrons dine in the dark and all the wait staff are blind.
rBGM TIL In 2004 Microsoft sued a law student for violating the Microsoft Office EULA by reselling an unopened package. When the student requested a trial by jury, Microsoft quickly dropped their suit.
4Pjg TIL: That Colonel Sanders got fired from dozens of jobs. Including being a lawyer. He found himself broke at the age of 65, and decided to start KFC.