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TIL that in New York State you don't need a law degree to be a judge. Across NY 61% of local judges are not lawyers, and in the North Country region 85% of local judges are not lawyers!

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Pw4O TIL that a young stripper named Shelly Bauman lost her leg in a freak confetti cannon accident. She sued and used the money from the settlement to open Seattle’s first gay bar, which she named “Shelly’s Leg.”
epEwL TIL Elizabeth Short’s (the Black Dahlia) mother found out she’d been murdered when a reporter called her and said her daughter won a beauty contest. The reporter then proceeded to get a bunch of information about Elizabeth before telling her mother she'd been brutally murdered and hanging up.
0wdBL TIL Nikita Khrushchev travelled to the US, fell in love with corn and Iowans, and sought to bring it back to the USSR and outproduce the US
9YVQ TIL that Norman Borlaug is considered to be one of the greatest humanitarians as he credited for saving billions of lives, but most people have never heard of him
8aAgP TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.