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TIL that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom was only established in 2009. Before then, the final court of appeal in the country was the House of Lords, the upper house of the U.K. Parliament.

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woddo TIL that several counties in Michigan have nonsense names. 19th century geographer Henry Schoolcraft invented meaningless "Indian-sounding" place names by combining Latin, Arabic, and Ojibwe sounds.
kJlKg TIL Johnny Depp cut off the tip of his own finger.
epK0k TIL that the term "spring fever" originally referred to illness in the spring caused by a lack of fresh foods in the winter.
VMm5B TIL that famed composer of musicals (i.e. Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and Evita) Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote his first full-length musical at age 17.