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TIL Jeopardy! Contestants stand on adjustable platforms so that they all appear to be the same height on camera.

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KYbJ4 TIL the Child Ballads - a collection of English and Scottish ballads - aren't named because they're intended for young audiences. They're named as such because they were collected into an anthology by folklorist Francis James Child.
QNDYL TIL to his pique, but the merriment of his children, Winston Churchill found two of his cousins named on a list of arrested Nazi sympathisers
LNjd TIL King John of Bohemia (who was blind) died in battle (where his retainers would lead his horse into the thick of the fighting, where he would then flail his sword around) was reported to have said: “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
j6ZEE TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.
9YN9X TIL that more Constitutional amendments have been proposed to reform or eliminate the Electoral College than on any other subject.