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

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paRb TIL that a total solar eclipse will pass over the entire continental United States from coast to coast in 2017
AbEa TIL that the estimated number of individual insects currently hopping, crawling or flying around our planet at any given moment is about 10 quintillion, meaning there are about 2 billion insects for every human being.
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4kMP6 TIL that Australia's Constitution allows New Zealand to join as Australia's 7th state at any time