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TIL Judge Judy’s audience are all paid actors.

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oBlPY TIL On the Kon Tiki expedition across the Pacific, the 6 men would eat off of whatever came on board. There was a crab in a hole near the steering block that showed no fear, so they let it stay and named it Johannes. Johannes the crab kept the watchman company for the rest of the journey.
KYLZE TIL senior citizen Emerich Juettner eluded the US Secret Service for 10 years while he used just enough poorly created counterfeit $1 bills (one version misspelled Washington) to support himself & his dog. He only used fake $1 bills one at a time & never to the same place twice. He'd serve 4 months.
b97Pa TIL there's a noticeable uptick in heart attacks immediately following Daylight Saving Time... likely due to people suddenly changing their sleep patterns, going against their "internal clock"
4Xw7a TIL that new discoveries seem to indicate that in prehistoric times, women often hunted just as much as men
W7Do8 TIL because of increasing standards of hygiene the number and size of holes in Swiss cheese declined in the 2000s. In 2025 the Swiss Federal Administrative Court approved the addition of hay flower powder to the milk during cheesemaking just for the creation of cheese holes.