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TIL Bartender Austin Rogers decided to go on Jeapardy on a whim. After a 12 game winning streak he became the seventh highest winning contestant on the show making $411,000 , and an internet sensation.

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GYjV4 TIL that in 2017, the British Nutrition Foundation ran a survey which found that 18% of five to seven-year-olds thought fish fingers are made from chicken, and 29% thought cheese came from a plant
neP5G TIL it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey
gMeXW TIL that Noodles, guitarist for the The Offspring kept his job as a high school janitor for three months after the band got big because he promised his boss he wouldn't quit till the end of the school year
1avxP TIL about the "Bielefeld conspiracy", that says the German city Bielefeld doesn't exist. This story was created by students in 1994 as an internet post, to show the spreading and argumentation of conspiracy theories. Today it is a longtime running gang in whole Germany.
v1Y7r TIL People with Capgras syndrome have an irrational belief that someone they know or recognize has been replaced by an imposter. Capgras syndrome is what's known as a delusional misidentification and is most commonly associated with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.