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TIL that the Texas Supreme Court reinstated a family law judge after he was caught on camera beating his disabled daughter.

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4Xmbo TIL George Eastman founder of the Kodak and helped to bring the use of roll film into the mainstream, suffered from a degenerative disease in his final two years. Eastman died by suicide with a gunshot through the heart. His suicide note read, "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait? GE."
ANlL7 TIL the vast majority of astronauts and cosmonauts have spent more time in space than Neil Armstrong has.
5VByr TIL Crows hold 'funerals' for fellow crows. Often neighboring crows who didn't know the now deceased crow or even see it die will attend these 'funerals'
8eXKP TIL in the Battle of Arausio, the Roman army was defeated to the Cimbri and Tuetons, and lost about 120,000 soldiers, but the two consuls who led the army survived.
rNL7W TIL The word "Whiskey" derived from the Old Irish and Scottish and means "Water of life".