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TIL Mike Illich, the founder of Little Caesars, paid for Rosa Parks’ rent in secret for the rest of her life after she was robbed and assaulted in her home

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yQ7Ev TIL that, due to an overlooked detail, Patrick Steward's character of Picard is technically 97 years old in the new series.
nm5G TIL: The original TRON arcade game made more money than the film’s initial release.
GA5yg TIL about Stewart Smith who, over the course of 40 years, breed non-native fish in his garage and covertly released them from his car which was outfitted with oxygenated fish tanks into New Zealand’s north island waterways for sport fishing.
grOoL TIL Enya's music "Only Time" re-entered the Billboard Top 100 reaching number 43, thirteen years after the original release thanks to it being featured in Volvo's Epic Split commercial with Jean-Claude Van Damme
b9jZp TIL Only about a third of black kids grow up with both their parents (in the USA), compared to 59% of Hispanic kids and 70% of white kids.