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TIL the Texas judge who beat his daughter was reinstated to the bench

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yQ5gw TIL that a researcher once proposed to his girlfriend in the acknowledgement section of a scientific paper that he published.
6JO8 TIL Morgan Freeman is against Black History Month
W7Bk4 TIL from around the 12th Century until about 200 years ago, sticks, called tally sticks, were used to record large financial transactions. This is the origin of the word “stock” (as in trading stocks) and lead to the burning down of the Palace of Westminster in 1834.
RWD9 TIL Lucy Ann Johnson, an Alaskan mother and wife, disappeared in 1961 and was reported missing in 1965. Last year (52 years later) she was found in the Canadian Yukon, alive and well, with an entirely new family.
awZE9 TIL in 1994, Russian Premier Boris Yeltsin escaped from the Presedential Guest House in Washington, and was found by the CIA in his underpants, drunk, yelling for a taxi so he could get pizza.