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TIL Doug from Scrubs is now a lawyer in Chicago

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wXZo TIL That NASA recorded the radio signature of Earth and converted it to an audible “Earthsong”
XENy8 TIL that the the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, setting of the show "Murder She Wrote," has a murder rate of 149 per 100,000 residents; compared to St. Louis, Missouri, which lead the U.S. in 2020 with 87 murders per 100k residents.
11O7 TIL of Pheasent Island, which is jointly owned by France and Spain, for six months alternatingly.
W9G4 TIL in 1988 Philly gangster Jackie DiNorscio, in the longest criminal trial in U.S. history, fired his lawyer, defended himself and through charm, wit and no legal experience, convinced a jury to acquit him and 19 other defendants of charges of loansharking, extortion, trafficking, arson and murder
awyaM TIL the Chicken Ranch was the Oldest Continually Operating Whorehouse in the United States when it closed in 1973. - During the Great Depression the "house of ill repute" offered time with a "lady of the evening" in exchange for a chicken. [The brothel was listed on the tax rolls as a poultry farm.]