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TIL there is a Unicode Character for ‘LOVE HOTEL’

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oB4Mr TIL that Britney Spears took algebra class so she could help her sons with their homework as it's likely that she did not receive much education due to her very early rise to fame
gM9LL TIL "Mayhem" is felony -- defined as disabling or disfiguring someone, and in 1936 an American heiress was charged with mayhem for ordering doctors to sterilize her 20-year-old daughter as punishment for promiscuity and to steal her inheritance.
OGL5Y TIL that the oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".
OGek6 TIL the ancient Egyptians named the Great Pyramid of Giza "Akhet-Khufu," which translates to "Horizon of Khufu."
Q4oe TIL Some of the largest Earthquakes in US recorded history took place not in California, but in and around Missouri in 1811-1812. The area in which some of these quakes were felt was 10X larger than that of the infamous 1906 San Francisco Quake.