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TIL Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner, Mike Ilitch quietly paid for Rosa Parks's rent after her Detroit home was robbed in 1994 until her death in 2005.

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Y7v9G TIL: SCOTUS decision in 1922 denied Japanese-American Takao Ozawa citizenship ruling that only white "Caucasians" were eligible. The next year, a Sikh man named Bhagat Singh Thind sued arguing that he should be eligible because he is from the Caucasus. He was also denied.
BrEpk TIL Russel Crowe wanted to make a sequel of 'Gladiator'. The script of the sequel had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians; then transported to other periods in history, like World War 2, Vietnam War and finally a general in the modern-day Pentagon.
vPyYj TIL about “erotomania”, a rare condition in which patients are deluded into believing that somebody who likely doesn’t know them is infatuated with them.
4XKkg TIL when an iOS app takes too long to launch, terminate, or respond to system events, the code 2343432205 is sent in a crash report. In hexadecimal, this translates to 8BADF00D, or "ate bad food"
E1gE7 During the war at Gallipoli, 6000 bullets per square metre were shot, a shocking statistic that provides some of the perspectives of the brutality of the fighting in this area