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TIL that sheriffs in Louisiana also collect taxes, among other duties besides law enforcement. They are so powerful that when dropping out of the gubernatorial race in 1995, sheriff Harry Lee said "Why would I want to be governor when I can be king?"

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Gvgg TIL there is an episode of Supernatural in which the two main characters are sent to an alternate universe in which they play the actors that play their characters on Supernatural (themselves) who are in the middle of filming an episode of a TV show called Supernatural.
eK44 TIL Robert Erskine Childers, an Irish Nationalist who smuggled guns into Ireland during their civil war and was sentenced to death, shook hands with the firing squad members and told them when they were about to shoot “Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way.”
naW7 TIL There’s a red, white and blue buoy marking the spot that Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry (inspiring him to write the Star Spangled Banner) in the Patapsco River. Picture in comments.
5oJr TIL “channel drift” is a term used to describe when a TV channel loses it’s original purpose. (The Learning Channel showing Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
6E7kY TIL Henry Ford bought an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Connecticut to build 'Fordlandia', the greatest rubber plantation known to man, where alcohol, women and football were banned. It produced almost no rubber, immediately descended into rioting and disease, and was abandoned