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TIL Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy champion who shattered all the records for the game, refused to come out of retirement for the Jeopardy: Greatest Of All Time championship tournament, because he thought he'd lose badly. He ended up crushing, winning in only four rounds out of a possible seven.

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