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TIL in 2005 Rick Moranis released a Grammy nominated country album The Agoraphobic Cowboy

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Bgkgb TIL that in 2023 the New Zealand men’s curling team was given free lodging in a Canadian retirement home for months in exchange for socializing with the seniors
8KXP TIL “Porn Judge” is an official Chinese government job title. Judges are paid $32,000 per year to view porn all day and have the sacred task of “returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. One judge is named “Wang Dong”.
a8bX9 TIL Roy Bean, an Old West saloon owner who was appointed as a justice of the peace in west Texas, called himself "the only law west of the Pecos". His first act as judge was to shoot up a competitor's saloon. He used his saloon as a courtroom and required jurors to buy a drink during every hearing.
mxQyM TIL because pendulum clocks are unreliable at sea, the first attempt at a marine chronometer was undertaken in 1673 utilizing a balance wheel and spring for regulation instead of a pendulum. This opened the way for the first modern pocket watches and wristwatches.
0w6PN TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.