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TIL Americans trust Judge Judy more than all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court

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YaRP TIL in Holland’s embassy in Moscow, two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building. Their owners finally investigated, thinking they would find mice. Instead, they discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies.
oB6yK TIL: The founder of chiropractic, D.D. Palmer, was a spiritualist who said he "received chiropractic from the other world" from a deceased medical physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.
P1QxV TIL Kansas City, the city whose NFL team just won the Superbowl, isn't even located in the state of Kansas but the capital of Missouri instead.
dDw9B TIL in Japan raw eggs are generally safe to eat. This is because the country has developed a "super egg machine" that checks the inside of the eggs for salmonella using spectroscopic analysis. It also cleans the eggs without breaking their shells, dries them, and packages them so they are safe.
ANXXd TIL in 2013, astronaut Chris Hadfield took a picture of Berlin at night from the International Space Station which showed the division between the former east and west through its streetlights. East Berlin looks orange due to sodium vapor lamps while West Berlin looks white due to fluorescent lamps.