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TIL All dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994

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vgPx TIL in 1871 William Frisbie of Bridgeport, Connecticut began the Frisbie Pie Company. Local schoolchildren made a game of tossing his empty pie plates which soon became popular with local college students. The name Frisbie was picked up by Wham-O toy company who changed it to Frisbee.
X0GAk TIL actor Shane West served as touring vocalist for the punk rock band Germs from 2005 to 2009.
De0j 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.
4ONJ TIL the revolver was first created by 16 year-old Samuel Colt.
9gjQ TIL that our solar system is ‘unusual’ in that it only has one star, more than half of the stars in the sky are binary or triple, Jupiter could have been our second star