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TIL: The answer-question format on Jeapardy! came about after a string of quiz show scandals. Audiences were skeptical that contestants were given the answers, so Merv Griffin built an entire show around giving answers.

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rNGd TIL on October 20, 1944, an above-ground natural gas storage tank began to leak. The gas eventually made its way into the sewers of Cleveland and eventually ignited, blowing manhole covers miles away and shooting flames up through the plumbing of homes. 130 people were killed.
R6kw TIL a small lake in Africa killed 1,700 villagers and 3,500 livestock overnight when it suddenly released 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide, suffocating everything within 16 miles. Scientists still don’t know what triggered the event.
7ryvZ TIL the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles was so profitable that profits continue to help fund youth sports as recently as in the 2010s
OowlL TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was not only a nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Ontario. He was a vegitarian who loved animals dearly and had a pet wolf that followed him after he healed its injured leg.
grlbL TIL the Bayeux tapestry is not from Bayeux and is not a tapestry. It is a work of embroidery that was most likely made in England.