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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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nZdd TIL that attempts were made to create a Human-Chimpanzee hybrid through artificial insemination of female chimpanzees in 1960s China. The experiment reportedly achieved pregnancy but was cut short by the Cultural Revolution.
YpxlG TIL that in Iceland, if you want to make your own necropants (nábrók), you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death, flay his lower body after he's buried, then steal a coin from a poor widow and place it in the scrotum. The coin will draw money into the scrotum.
PY8gn TIL of Audie Murphy who was awarded every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.
KnJ6 TIL that a 1000 year old remedy book contained a treatment for MRSA, nearly 800 years before bacteria was discovered.
oBOnY TIL Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus have adopted the Revised Julian calendar, which currently aligns its dates with the Gregorian calendar but will start differing from February 2800