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TIL That in most Southern States the Coroner is the only person that can arrest the Sheriff

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JYM8v TIL that on the island of Wogeo, Papua New Guinea, menstruation is seen as powerful and cleansing. Even men are expected to do a form of menstruation, in which they slice their penises with a crab claw while standing in the ocean.
D1EGr TIL that Hitler's dentist, Hugo Johannes Blaschke, who held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer, studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
LkVmd TIL Judge Judy makes $47 million a year ($900,000 per work day)
d8AR7 TIL that the light you see when you rub your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes and it has been described since the ancient Greeks.
0w8Ep TIL of Chartreuse, a storied French liqueur with a recipe that dates back to the early 1600s. The recipe originated in an old alchemical textbook presented to an order of monks by an artillery marshal of the French army. The original order of monks retains brewing rights to this day.