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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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x694o TIL that the celestial bodies or any objects in space we see in space are actually from the past due to how long it takes for light to travel back to Earth.
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