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

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LBPp TIL That the Carolina Wolf Spider is the Official State Spider of South Carolina, and that South Carolina is the only U.S. State that recognises a state spider
pOAO TIL that a Gladiator sequel script had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians against persecution; then transported to other periods including WWII, the Vietnam War, and finally being a general in the Pentagon. It was rejected for being too far-fetched.
6Y6l TIL: The Nazis never called themselves ‘Nazis’, as it was a derogatory word for a backwards peasant. It was the anti-Nazis that popularised the term.
4XLR6 TIL: Iowa has a law that prevents new roads from being constructed diagonally. They want every road to be in a cardinal direction.
VBWjG Today I learned that the comedy folk band 'The Lancashire Hotpots' were forced to change the title of their song "The Beer Olympics" due to copyright claims by the IOC. They then renamed the song "The Beer International Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Sporting Quad Yearly Event."