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TIL Old typewriters have no exclamation point! They typed an apostrophe ' over a period .

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a9oA TIL the Coca-Cola logo and the Ford logo use the same font, Spencerian script
bv80 TIL Jacob Appelbaum, a man who has been repeatedly targeted by US law enforcement agencies for his work with Wikileaks, was once detained by US Customs; they searched him for phones or laptops but found only flash drives with The Bill of Rights encoded in them. They were unable to copy them.
PYLmn TIL that the yellow Planet Aid collection bins are a funding stream for a European cult.
8XVX TIL Ballooning is a behavior in which spiders use their silk to lift themselves up in the air, using the wind to move between locations. Some spiders can move for up to 25 days or longer while traveling high up into the upper atmosphere.
G4JG TIL that in 1873 a war broke out between Republicans and Democrats after both sides claimed they won the state election for Governor. Louisiana Democrats formed a “shadow” government, their own paramilitary force called the White League, and massacred more than 150 African Americans.