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TIL Jonathan Lee Riches who after hearing that Guinness World Records was going to name him the world's "most litigous person," responded by suing them.

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WgPL TIL the US gov’t was found guilty of assassinating MLK jr in civil court
wLmr6 TIL that Leonard Nimoy (known for playing Spock in the Star Trek) published a book "I Am Not Spock" because people often called him Spock IRL, later he gave up and published another book "I Am Spock"
wAGJ TIL father of Behaviorism B.F. Skinner once successfully conditioned the hand movements of a distinguished psychologist who was in the middle of arguing against Skinner’s work
m1wJR TIL in 2021, a single deli shop in New Jersey that was publicly traded managed to achieve a market capitalization of over $100 million despite doing only $35,000 in sales across two years. The deli's largest shareholder was the wrestling coach of the high school next door.
v1pML TIL Anthony Hopkins gave up on Hollywood and returned to London’s West End theatre before his casting in The Silence of The Lambs. For his role as Hannibal Lecter, he won the Oscar for Best Actor and AFI lists the character as the #1 film villain of all time