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TIL That A Colorado Sheriff Served Time In A Jail Named After Him (Meth For Sex)

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7L8x TIL Numbuh 1 of the Kids Next Door is loosely based on Jean-Luc Picard. They are both naturally bald, red shirt wearing englishman leaders who never have good experiences handling women. For Halloween Numbuh 1 even dressed as a member of the Borg.
16AAP TIL that the origin of 6 of the 7 musical notes (do re mi fa sol la) were inspired by the first syllable of each line of the Latin hymn "Hymn to St. John the Baptist"
NaD1 TIL a pair of those glasses with a big nose, thick eyebrows, and a mustache attached is called a ‘beaglepuss’
9wWJr TIL about Jemima Nicholas, a Welsh woman who thwarted the French invasion of Britain in 1797 by leading a dozen women with pitchforks against the 1400 French troops. She captured 12 troops and locked them in a church, the French surrendered after 3 days
6NV8 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, it’s placed in a lower abdomen and the failed kidneys are usually not removed, leaving you with three kidneys.