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TIL that when Judge Judy says, “You owe her $5,000,” the defendant doesn’t really owe $5,000. The producers pay any damages and the defendant even gets paid to be there.

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rWko TIL: 1986’s Howard the Duck was such a financial disaster that it (along with his recent divorce) forced George Lucas to sell his new CGI company to Steve Jobs, giving birth to Pixar.
oRZxA TIL In an alcohol-induced blackout the subject is temporarily unable to form new long-term memories while relatively maintaining other skills such as talking or even driving.
VMapk TIL Legendary Mötorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister had his ashes put into bullets and gave them to his closest friends when he died.
eovg TIL of Equatorial Guinea’s 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”
Mraa TIL the reason why we hate the recorded sound of our voice is because our skull changes the resonance of our voice from within and creates more bass. When we hear a digital recording of our voice, although slightly unfamiliar to ourselves, it’s exactly how other people hear it.