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TIL the judge from the Rick and Morty courtroom sketch was publicly admonished for failing to discharge his duties impartially, competently, and diligently

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R7pga TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
6rJm TIL the colors you see when you close your eyes are from a type of light emitted by them
OG087 TIL of Nakahama Manjirō, a 14-year-old fisherman who was shipwrecked on an island with four friends. They were rescued by an American whaleship, who took them to Honolulu, where his friends stayed. Manjirō continued on to Massachusetts and become the first Japanese person to land on mainland USA.
pYZBZ TIL the disappearance of Mt Kilimanjaro's glaciers is driven by solar radiation, since the air around it is rarely above freezing. Most of the retreat occurred before 1953, nearly two decades before any conclusive evidence of atmospheric warming was available.
kZ7B TIL that during the 70s-80s the crime was so high in New York City that they had volunteer crime-prevention patrollers like Guardian Angels