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TIL Judge Judy isn’t actually a judge on her television show, but is actually playing the role of an arbiter. Also, the show pays for any money awarded to the plaintiff.

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eK05 TIL that at concerts in Finland, instead of yelling at the band to play Free Bird as a joke, they yell at the band to play Paranoid (by Black Sabbath)
wLrAJ TIL The Glitter Band, the former backing group of Gary Glitter, fought a lawsuit for the right to use the name. The band won, but two weeks later the Glitter name was ruined when Gary Glitter was revealed as a pedophile
gMdA9 TIL that the irregular shapes of the letters in the Comic Sans font type allows people suffering from dyslexia to read more easily. While many fonts use repeated shapes to create different letters, such as a ‘p’ rotated to made a ‘q,’ Comic Sans uses few repeated shapes, creating distinct letters.
G554 TIL that Hitler’s chief architect, Albert Speer, was an adherent of the “theory of ruin value”: the architectural goal of constructing buildings that later collapse into aesthetically-pleasing ruins over the course of thousands of years.
gr9EL TIL because radio stations at the time preferred to not play songs lasting more than three minutes, Paul Simon listed the running time of the 1967 Simon & Garfunkel song "Fakin' It" as 2:74 on the label.