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

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kOV51 TIL The Cullinan diamond, found in 1905, is the largest diamond ever discovered at 3,106 carat. A fake diamond was transported from South Africa to England via a guarded ship, while the real diamond was simply sent in the mail in a plain box.
XERmQ TIL Elvis had to be rescued from a bowl of chicken soup that he began to drown in.
WkOGX TIL: Before there were Mexican Federales, there were Mexican Rurales
8aXPK TIL when Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated the throne in 1918, Einstein wrote in his journal “[Lecture] cancelled due to revolution."
QJvp9 TIL that "empty" space is home to energy field fluctuations and thus is not truly empty