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TIL: A Public Defender dared a deputy sheriff to arrest her, then sued for false arrest, and won (sort of). Both sides effectively told to grow up.

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e0WPE TIL Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln. Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of former President Abraham Lincoln. Their common ancestor is John Hanks (1680 - 1740), who was the great-great-grandfather of Lincoln and the six-time great-grandfather of Tom Hanks.
e09eD TIL of the Astor Place Riot of 1849, in which 22-31 people died and over 120 were injured in a riot stemming from a dispute over whether an American or a British actor was the best Shakespearean actor
0dJ4R TIL Bob Barker had a cameo in the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful in which he told a man to help control the pet population by having his pet spayed or neutered, then beat him up and kicked him down a hill after the man called Bob wacko.
Ej8o TIL that treason is the only crime defined in the US Constitution. It is almost never prosecuted, because (unlike espionage) it requires a confession or two witnesses to the act.
MeKB0 TIL That a small portion of television static you see between channels is caused by cosmic background radiation, remnants of the 'Big Bang'.