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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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d8YPj TIL about the "Theremin", a musical instrument that you play without physically touching it. By moving your hands closer or away from two metal antennas, you alter the theremin's surrounding electromagnetic fields and the interference causes an audible sound.
Jrdk TIL about “Curiosity”, an ‘experimental’ online mobile game by Peter Molyneux promising the winner a 'life-changing’ prize. There was a winner, back in May of 2013. He still hasn’t gotten his prize.
64Yw TIL, speedlimits are somewhat pointless. When limits were changed by as much a 20mph, the rate vehicles traveled didn’t change. What did was the number of citations given.
D1dkp TIL the inventor of the Super Soaker & Nerf Gun was a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University Ph.D. and former NASA scientist.
N7jA6 TIL that the success World War II fighter ace Douglas Bader was put down to him having lost his legs in an aerobatics accident before the war, which allowed him to pull higher g-forces in combat turns without blacking out.