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TIL former trash TV host Jerry Springer is now Judge Jerry Springer, and is indeed an actual civil arbitrator.

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XEloQ TIL humans were present in the western hemisphere long before the land bridge was habitable by life.
5Y8vR TIL that Linux operating system Ubuntu, is named after the Nguni philosophy of ubuntu, which Canonical indicates means "humanity to others" with a connotation of "I am what I am because of who we all are".
BRlb TIL Matt Stone & Trey Parker had people warn them that there would be Mormon protests surrounding their musical “The Book of Mormon”, but the church has had a great sense of humor about it, even advertising in some BOM playbills with phrases like “the book is always better”
v1MNj TIL about slip coaches, which was part of the British rail service that offered passengers rides to smaller, less serviced stations. It would work by allowing the slip coach to detach from the train while it was moving at speed and would then drift into the station to allow passengers to disembark.
epxkg TIL between 2002 and 2018, 13 people were killed in Filipino karaoke bars while performing Frank Sinatra's "My Way" by other drunken patrons. Reasons include singing it in the wrong key or too many times in a row, or the "arrogant" lyrics putting off the audience. Most bars have now banned the song.