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TIL about the existence of a symbol for ?!, the interrobang

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xXQw TIL that when space invaders was released in Japan it caused a coin shortage because people just couldn’t stop playing it.
gMjwD TIL in 1857 Senator James Hammond, representative of South Carolina, released a manual of breastfeeding rules for enslaved women. The manual regulated time spent breastfeeding and rigidly set weaning schedules. The women were forced to nurse the children of their owners as well as other babies.
ZY4G TIL the dialogue spoken by the Elite in Halo: Combat Evolved was made by reversing and slowing sound clips of Sergeant Johnson. The most common phrase: “Wort! Wort! Wort!” is the reversed phrase, “Go! Go! Go!”.
GYyZj TIL two countries, Iceland and Norway, generate all their electricity using renewable energy
W5Gd TIL: That Urban Farming in the 1600s was more efficient than Green Houses of today.