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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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p0BA TIL the first men on the moon had to use a pen to ignite the lunar module engines and leave the lunar surface because the switch had broken off
XE9Vk TIL the earliest home TV recording was discovered in 1996. Done in London in 1933 (when only a few thousand 30-line TVs existed) using a phonograph recorder to record the audible TV signal transmitted after the regular BBC radio broadcast ended at 11 PM. It was 4 minutes of dancing girls.
pY47O TIL in 2018 a Missouri deer hunter convicted of poaching hundreds of deer was forced to watch the animated film “Bambi” once a month for the duration of his one year prison sentence
N7RlE Til england and Wales have a free anonymous drug testing service so that if you are determined to take drugs you can at least know it is what you think it is.
E1vBX TIL In the 1690s, the Scottish tried to start a colony in Panama, but the Spanish and English wiped them out.