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TIL the official name of the # symbol is “octothorpe”

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a8EPJ TIL about Doc Holliday/John Henry Holliday a dentist and gunfighter in the American West, who participated in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. He is known as the deadliest dentist in the west.
4Xvda TIL: Human's only using 10 percent of their brain is a myth. Humans actually use nearly every part of their brain.
N5LJ TIL some of the original Playstation 1 games had the game music set as CD audio, meaning you could listen to the game music from a normal CD player. Some games contained hidden tracks that could only be accessed this way.
QJ0we TIL about a case study in which a cortically blind man was shown pictures of faces. He couldn’t explain what he was seeing, but the part of the brain that responds to threat and arousal spiked when he was shown pictures of faces that looked like they were staring at him.
p8Zjp TIL thioacetone, one of the worst smelling compounds known to man, can make people vomit and pass out within a mile range due to its extremely unpleasant odor