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TIL that contestants on Jeopardy can't ring in until a light goes on that only they can see which TV viewers can't see and the process is controlled by an off-screen employee.

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dDARd TIL there is a genus of plant in the pea family called Clitoria. Its name comes from its flowers, which look like human vulvas. Some species' flowers are edible and commonly used in Southeast and South Asian cuisines and traditional medicine.
mD5y TIL that Abraham Lincoln suffered from a lifelong “melancholy,” a condition we now call clinical depression. His suffering was so severe, that his community had to put him under a “suicide watch.”
NAXM TIL Roald Dahl, author of “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”.
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