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TIL when Judge Judy was offered her own TV series, Petri Hawkins-Byrd, her former bailiff, wrote her a congratulatory letter, saying: “If you ever need a bailiff, I still look good in uniform.” Judge Judy called him at home to offer him a role, which he accepted.

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AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
NX0ZN TIL of Robert of St. Albans, an English Templar knight who converted to Islam in 1187 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders during the Battle of Hattin and in Jerusalem. Robert's conversion to Islam caused significant dismay among the Christians and sparked ill-will toward the Templars
QNnkX TIL Kary Mullis, a Nobel Prize laureate, wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon. He suggested it might have been an extraterrestrial alien.
eBjD TIL there is a perfectly painless of killing someone through nitrogen asphyxiation by cutting off oxygen while still supplying nitrogen so that the body does not experience a suffocating sensation. However, this method is not used by any government as a method of capital punishment.
69NBl TIL Ludwig Wittgenstein, considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century, was asked by his sister to help build a house. He spent a year designing the door handles.