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TIL as Alex Trebek was not able to retire on his own terms, one of the final phone calls he made was to Ken Jennings regarding taking over the hosting duties of "Jeopardy!". Trebek passed away the same weekend as this call, having hosted his final shows less than two weeks prior to his death.

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4JAb TIL In South Carolina, the maximum sentence for beating your dog is longer than the max sentence for beating your wife.
b9dy7 TIL that the Roman numeral for "half of something" is the symbol "S", so "iPhone 4S, 6S, XS" would just mean iPhone 4.5, 6.5 and 10.5
4vmJ TIL Clerks was made for $27,575, mostly funded by credit cards in Kevin Smith’s name, proceeds from selling his comic collection, a family donation and paychecks from the stores the film is about.
D1pjg TIL a man that killed his estranged wife, her daughter who was 14 months old & their son who was 4 with separate knives to not “cross contaminate” their blood & “allow demons inside them to live” & then plucked out his own eyeballs & ate them in prison was declared sane.
ADwQ7 TIL "Maundy" as in Maundy Thursday comes from Latin mandatum (Eng. commandment) and symbolizes the new commandment given during the Last Supper.