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TIL the transgender prisoner in “Orange is the New Black” is played by a transgender woman with an identical twin brother who plays her character in pre-transition flashbacks.

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AAMx TIL Bill Nye has gotten three honorary Doctorate Degrees, for being Bill Nye.
1arDr TIL Olive Oyl was a comic strip character for 10 years before Popeye was created.
6Aa7 TIL that sobriety checkpoints are illegal in Texas under the state’s interpretation of the federal Constitution
6lXX TIL in WW2, Owen Baggett shot down a Japanese Zero with a M1911 .45 caliber pistol. He killed the pilot who had just shot down his B24. The Zero had returned to kill the airmen who had parachuted out. Baggett, wounded, played dead until the plane got close enough and then he shot the pilot.
x0w7 TIL in 2014 a cat saved his young owner from being attacked by bullies. After they teased the boy outside his home and shoved him to the ground, the cat ran out, jumped on the ringleader’s chest and hissed until they fled in panic. The cat then slept outside the boy’s room every night to protect him