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TIL the buzzers on "Jeopardy!" will lock contestants out for .25 seconds if they ring in before the host has finished the last syllable of the question.

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6Ebk8 TIL after the Civil War the demand for labor grew, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries many children were drawn into the labor force. The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.
69v6X TIL: The Third Reich produced a Titanic movie adaptation in 1943 used as propaganda blaming British and American capitalism for the tragedy
gMQKX TIL that while most of Irish English is rhotic, a majority of Dubliners are either non rhotic or weakly rhotic
9jKm TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.
BA8W TIL: The child lead of the 1986 film Flight of the Navigator is a convicted bank robber