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TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast in a case that ended up going to the Supreme Court

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R7B61 TIL In studies, pigeons and honeybees were able to differentiate between two artist's styles.
16ZWD TIL Walmart pulled an educational toy after a bilingual grandmother recognized the item was using Polish profanity as well as singing in Polish about suicide, depression, drug abuse, and cocaine.
GY691 TIL in the Siege of Bastogne in 1944, the Germans sent a letter offering surrender. The US commander's response was "To the German Commander: NUTS! The American Commander". This was translated by the US interpreter as "Go to hell".
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1EQ8 TIL that portions of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation were posthumously found to have been plagiarized verbatim from other sources.