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TIL “Jeopardy!” contestant Dhruv Gaur wrote “What is… We [love] you, Alex!” as his Final Jeopardy response while Alex Trebek was battling cancer. The message left Trebek visibly emotional and was widely shared as an example of fans’ affection for the longtime host.

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jNLgX TIL Nurhaci attacked China's Ming Dynasty, Korea's Joseon Dynasty, and his conquest of northeast China laid the groundwork for the conquest of China by the Qing Dynasty. He is also credited with ordering the creation of a written script for the Manchu language
Wk1bX TIL: Despite Overwhelming Evidence Against Him, John Wayne Gacy was never "Caught." Instead he folded under constant police surveillance which caused his mental state to deteriorate and cleared to air to his lawyer, who informed the police that he had killed thirty people
pYPdZ TIL Michael Schumacher donated $10 million to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was the highest individual donation made in the disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.
Wk1nd TIL about the world’s loneliest whale, a whale that sings at a 52-hertz frequency not shared by any other whale on earth, and which doesn’t follow the known migration pattern of any other baleen whales
grvX8 TIL that the Ersu Shaba script—used to write the Ersu language of Sichuan, China—makes distinction between glyphs written in different colors. For example, the glyph "starts and moon" means "dim" when written in black, and shining when written in white.