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TIL there is a town called Okay, OK. It has a population of about 600.

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1gQX TIL there is a practicing attorney in Detroit named Luke Skywalker
lY4A TIL the first official motor vehicle “speeding” ticket was handed out in the UK, when a gentleman named Walter Arnold was caught rocketing down the road at the breakneck speed of… 8 MPH.
mm1o TIL that Judge Judy makes more money than any celebrity other than Lebron James with $123,000 a day, which amounts to $45 million a year.
mOPy TIL that in 1669, Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus by boiling down urine and heating the residue to very high temperatures. He was trying to make gold though, and he hoped that the yellow color of urine meant there was gold in it.
LQKyr TIL that U.S. Vice President William R. King took the oath of office in Cuba in 1853 because he was too ill to travel to Washington, making him the only U.S. president or vice president ever sworn in on foreign soil, and he died less than a month later before ever serving in Washington.