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TIL Little Caeser's founder discreetly paid Rosa Parks' rent for 14 years in a nicer area after she was robbed and assaulted in her apartment in a rough area

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OG8OR TIL Honda makes a chili-infused wire wrap to deter rodents from chewing through car wiring
6OwY TIL that “in comparison to Android users… iPhone owners are more likely to be female, younger, and increasingly concerned about their smartphone being viewed as a status object” and display “lower levels of Honesty–Humility and higher levels of emotionality.”
N74BE TIL that female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first through a phenomenon called ‘superfetation’
6xQl TIL that the People’s Republic of China abolished the five time zones system and established one single time zone in 1949.
EmjV TIL in 2010 a zombie satellite came back online. It wouldn’t die and inexplicably begins stealing other communications signals.