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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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0d0r1 TIL Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, implemented policies to improve the economy, including privatization of state-owned industries, import tariffs, and autarky. This led to reduced foreign trade, resulting in rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.
8eA5X TIL Wyoming passed a law that bans burying wind turbine blades in landfills
9J7D TIL that one of the reasons the US entered the First World War was because the British intercepted a German telegram to Mexico asking them to declare war on the US and in return Mexico would receive Texas and California
OGQJL TIL that while the Royal Navy suspended flogging in 1879, they never actually abolished it.
Z89BQ TIL the Queen owns all of the U.K.'s swans. Every year there is an annual census of all the swans in the River Thames, a centuries-old tradition known as the Swan Upping that takes place the third week in July. This years Swan Upping started today.