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

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GYnpj TIL that Foo Fighters' front man Dave Grohl is such a huge fan of UK rock band Killing Joke, he did all of the drumming on their self-titled 2003 album free of charge.
VMLL4 TIL that when company CEOs like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg took only $1 in yearly salary, it wasn't necessarily an altruistic move, but rather it is more tax-efficient (for example 35% vs. 15%) to receive compensation in ways that are taxed as "capital gains".
gEQA TIL of Starfish. A 60’s US military experiment designed to see what would happen when a nuke was detonated 250 miles above Earth’s magnetic pole. It resulted in an EMP 900 miles wide, an intense artificial aurora, and a radiation belt that disabled 1/3 of the low orbit satellites and lasted 5 years.
Ypv8x TIL a test to determine whether a person is susceptible to catch scarlet fever is called "The Dick test" after its inventor.
DQQYj TIL a 3-milligram dose of fentanyl (right in the picture) is enough to kill an average-sized adult male, for heroin it is 30 milligrams (left)