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TIL Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Justice, liked to poke fun at his conservative colleagues. He would greet the Chief Justice with "What's shakin', Chiefy Baby?"

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BgVaD TIL in 1318 a pretender to the throne, John Deydras, was hanged for sedition. At trial he had blamed his cat (devil in disguise). So they hanged the cat as well.
w6kY TIL there is an actual word for the way Jedi master Yoda talks: ‘anastrophic’
e0gWk TIL a 1967 study showed that only 38% of people were able to identify recordings of their own voice within 5 seconds.
mN6R TIL in 2006 the FBI convicted a crime family using evidence collected by remotely enabling the microphone on a cellphone. This is called a “roving bug.”
Nxxb TIL that Scotland once used a currency called ‘The Unicorn’