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TIL a 2-time Jeopardy! champ who won $24k in 1989 is serving a life sentence for murdering his wife

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NW86 TIL there is a secret room inside Lincoln’s head in Mount Rushmore that was meant to be a vault of American history but was never finished by Rushmore’s sculptor because he died before it could be completed. More than 50 years later, it was partially completed by 4 generations of his family.
m15kR TIL that the CEO of Food for the Poor, one of the largest international humanitarian organizations in the US, was named Robin Mahfood
ADMB4 TIL of Distichlis palmeri, a grain plant with a high salt tolerance. Until recently it was thought to be extinct. But a breeding program of the remaining plants has bred varieties with yields of 2 tons per hectare, and is a strong candidate to become a major global food crop.
glj9 TIL the Japanese killed more innocent people during WW2 (25,000,000+) than Hiroshima+Nagasaki and The Holocaust (246,000+11,000,000) COMBINED!
9YR1M TIL the 6 year old boy who claimed he "went to heaven and came back" after being "internally decapitated" in a car accident recanted his story when he got older, stating he said it for attention, and the book about it was full of lies