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TIL that Frank Caprio’s dad reprimanded him for refusing to forgive $300 in parking tickets to a single mom on his first day as a judge, inspiring his compassionate approach to justice throughout his career

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o0e7 TIL that when the first hot air balloon landed after its maiden flight, it was immediately destroyed by pitchfork-wielding peasants
OGaD1 TIL in 1958 Two Pilots Flew A Cessna 172 For 64 Days Straight, Refueling By Flying Over A Gas Truck On A Road.
4XnJg TIL: That our solar system is flying through the Milky Way Galaxy at an incomprehensible 828,000 Kilometers an hour, but the Milky Way is so big that it still takes the Solar System 230 million years to orbit it.
LkQK9 TIL: Near-perfect ellipsoid lenses have been found among viking artifacts. Hinting that the Vikings likely made telescopes 1000 years ago, 500 years before Galileo.
8eMnG TIL that Dennis Rodman's has between 26 and 46 siblings on his father's side