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TIL that nearly half the states in the US allow village and town judges to hold office without a law degree. In NY, these judges aren't even required to have a degree of any kind and can preside over criminal cases.

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D10nj TIL The World's oldest Post Office is located in Dumfries, Scotland - opening in 1712 and operating continuously ever since.
v1Nex TIL that if you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon. It would take just 23 folds for a .1-millimeter piece of paper to be one kilometer thick, and 30 folds for it to be thick enough to reach outer space (100,000 kilometers). With 51 you will burn in the Sun.
d8wA7 TIL that Ice T has narrated a Dungeons and Dragons audiobook. He also pronounced the W in "sword" throughout.
m81o TIL Black Widow females rarely eat the male after mating, the misconception comes from labs where the male is trapped in the same cage as the female.
QJoeE TIL Hippocrates believed that the natural processes of the body shouldn't be intervened. This philosophy carried into the late 1800s to the extent that development of pus was seen as positive indicator of healing because it was routinely found in all kinds of wounds. It was called "laudable pus".