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TIL Jeopardy films 5 episodes in a day, to give the impression that a day has passed, Alex Trebek changes his suit in between shows

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KY9A9 TIL about vanity height: very tall buildings often include a substantial amount of unusable space purely to make the building taller. For example, 29% of the Burj Khalifa's 829 meter height (224m) is vanity - it is still the tallest building by top floor height, but only by two meters.