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TIL - Lynn Russell, a former CNN anchor, has two black belts, a deputy sheriff’s badge, a real estate license, and her private investigative license. Lynn and her husband, Chuck de Caro survived a shootout at a Motel 6 in 2015.

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6EBPY TIL A deer poacher in Missouri is sentenced to watch Bambi once every month during his yearlong prison term
WkVZo TIL in the state of Texas, possession of any amount of marijuana edibles is a FELONY. If you’re caught in possession of a single THC gummy bear in Texas, you will be sent to jail for at least 180 days.
YpOer TIL actress Kim Basinger bought a small town in Georgia in 1989 to try to make it a tourist destination. Five years later she sold it in bankruptcy.
AN7Ad TIL: Crab Rangoons aren't related to Chinese cuisine, and were instead invented in an American Tiki bar by someone trying to give a new appatizer a suitably Asian sounding name, and then re-appropriated by Chinese-American restaurateurs as a staple appetizer.
O1YL TIL once the last flight before winter has left the South Pole research base, leaving the ~50 crew that will stay all through the ever-dark polar winter, the remaining crew have a tradition where they watch The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) back to back.