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TIL Judge Judy makes 45 million dollars per year, and only works 52 days.

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d8wN7 TIL that a British inventor created an earthquake bomb, which was used in WWII to great effect to destroy bomb-proof installations such as submarine pens. The same inventor later invented a bouncing bomb, which would skip across water to avoid torpedo nets and destroy dams
6EbOJ TIL DVI can carry audio if DVI to HDMI adapter is used for certain hardware
JYZjj Today I learned that Bounce by System of a Down is not about an actual pogo stick that Serge takes on dates
NX4DN TIL that Flick from ‘A Christmas Story’ went into Porn in the 1990s
xVe1 TIL In 1984 Terry Williams was sentenced to death for murdering two men. After his sentencing, when jurors learned these men had repeatedly raped Williams for years, several came forward to say they no longer supported his death sentence. He is scheduled to be executed on October 3rd, 2012.