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TIL that there is a punctuation mark called an “interrobang”. It is the name given to “?!”.

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MegvV TIL that George Orwell's use of 2+2=5 as a catchphrase of the dystopian government in his book 1984 is based on Joseph Stalin's use of that equation in propaganda. Soviet posters declared "2 + 2 plus the enthusiasm of the workers = 5" long before Orwell wrote his novel.
j6VrN TIL Picher, Oklahoma is the Most Polluted Place in America From Mining and Industry
VMb8Q TIL of the term Fellow Traveller, used to refer to people who sympathize with the ideology of an organization and cooperate with it, but are not members of it.
k6V1 TIL a shark’s heart is under it’s tongue.
ZMQB TIL Jamie Hyneman worked on star wars 1 and 2 as a special effects tech