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TIL Pat Sajak and Vanna White used to host Wheel of Fortune while drunk

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69YW TIL French and Italian have a lexical similarity (the degree of similarity between two languages) rating of .89, and generally languages are considered dialects if the similarity is above .85.
J9Zm TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won
1MZ4 TIL the fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant have a mutualistic relationship whereby the plant’s stem provides a home for small colonies of ants who in turn keep the chemistry of the pitcher’s liquid balanced by removing large insects from inside, preventing the liquid from spoiling.
5GB TIL Marvin the Martian wore Roman armor as he was based on a conception of the Roman god Mars.
oQ7o TIL Tokyo has the most Michelin-starred restaurants of any city in the world.