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TIL In 2008, Judge Mark Ciavarella and Judge Michael Conahan were found to have taken kickbacks in exchange for sending, as many as 6000, kids to juvenile facilities and giving them outrageously excessive sentences. Corrupt bastards ..

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ANonl TIL 287 years is the longest a library book was overdue. While writing a biography on Colonel Robert Walpole in 1956, Prof. John Plumb returned a history book to the Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge after Walpole had checked it out around the year 1667.
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Ke0w TIL roses produce fruit
8agp8 TIL That spicy foods are spicy because they trigger certain cells inside the tongue that are the same type of cell that detect extreme heat, and it has nothing to do with taste.
49R6 TIL that telling “scary ghost stories” on Christmas eve is an all but lost Victorian tradition