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TIL Darryl Scott has the record for the lowest winning score in the history of Jeopardy, with only one dollar.

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Z8W6p TIL Tsuyama massacre (1938) was the deadliest shooting by lone gunman in Japanese history. This happened because women in village rejected his sexual advances. So, 21 years old Mutsuo Toi went rampage and killed 30 people with his shotgun, axe and katana. Toi's grandma was also one of the victims
oBvNR TIL that Cormac McCarthy writes all of his books on a 1963 Lettera typewriter. In 2009, he sold his typewriter sold at auction for $254,500. He spent $20 to buy an identical replacement.
xMGD TIL the average female killer whale lives 50-60 years, but ‘Granny’, a 104-year-old Killer whale, was recently spotted off Canada’s west coast in 2014 w/ her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren!
Wa98 TIL that British citizens are not considered foreigners under Irish law; neither are Irish citizens under British law. Both groups can freely enter, vote, work, and retire in either country.
OGYGa TIL; In August 1976, US and South Korean men were trimming a poplar tree obscuring a view between a checkpoint & observation post - A group of North Koreans appeared demanding they stop cutting branches. Capt Bonifas ignored them & then they attacked using clubs & axes taken from the gardening group