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TIL Judge Cicconetti of Ohio dispenses what he calls creative justice. He has sentenced a man who stole from the Salvation Army to spend 24 hours homeless, a woman who abandoned 35 kittens in a forest to spend a night in the woods, & noisy neighbours to listen to classical music instead of rock

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OGLAa TIL The word "quarantine" comes from a 14th-century practice in the Venetian Republic, where ships had to isolate for 40 days to prevent the spread of the plague, leading to the term "quarantine" from the Italian "quaranta giorni" (40 days).
7r1yb TIL Neil Armstrong and Aldrin were almost stranded on the moon because they broke a vital circuit breaker, snapping power to the engine. They finally managed to push and hold it back in with a felt-tip pen long enough for it to work.
DYKv TIL a ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It is the time it takes for light to travel one cm in a vacuum.
YVkr TIL that the petals of a sunflower are actually each single-petalled flowers; a sunflower is actually a cluster of hundreds of flowers.
Wd78 TIL the Dinkleberg family name from The Fairly OddParents is in reference to the term “D.I.N.K.”, meaning “Dual Income No Kids”, attributing to their wealth.