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TIL the familiar music played during Final Jeopardy is called "Think". It was written in 1963 by Merv Griffin, creator of Jeopardy, to help his then five-year-old son Tony fall asleep. Since its first use in the show in 1964, the song has earned the Griffin estate over $100 million in royalties.

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woNJ6 TIL that, following the success of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq's "most wanted" playing cards, the US Department of Defense printed "Archaeology Awareness" playing cards. They were intended to educate soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan about the importance of protecting archaeological sites.
e0oJn TIL: The Bay View Massacre occurred in 1886 when workers demanded an 8-hour workday. When the workers shut down the town, the Governor of Wisconsin gave the National Guard orders to shoot-to-kill. When the Guard Captain got the orders, he picked a man out of the crowd and had him shot.
MGeb TIL the Scotts company used to include clover in their lawn mix as a natural fertilizer. When their new herbicide killed the clover, they reclassified it as a weed.
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m1lY TIL Scientists have been working on possibly cloning a Neanderthal questioning the risks of putting it into our environment and the workarounds.