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TIL The bailiff on Judge Judy makes $1 million a year
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TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.
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TIL around 140000 men were convicted under Paragraph 175, a law in German Criminal Code penalising homosexuality that lasted from 1871 to... 1994. Also, "criminals" that were in Nazi camps due to their homosexuality, weren't released from camps after liberation and their "sentence" were still valid.
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TIL 140 million years ago, India was part of an immense supercontinent called Gondwana, in the Southern Hemisphere. About 80 million years ago, it accelerated its drift to Eurasia at about 15cm per year — about twice as fast as the fastest modern tectonic drift. The impact created the Himalayas.
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TIL that tarantulas have retractable claws much like cats.
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TIL that a company named BimboBakeriesUSA owns a lot of the major bread brands.