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TIL a gymnast scored a perfect 10 in the 1976 olympics, the scoreboard couldn’t go that high so a 1.0 was displayed

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OoyN6 TIL The ampersand (&) was the 27th letter of the alphabet as a ligature of the letters 'e' and 't' to form the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. So the alphabet would go X,Y,Z and And. So to distinguish it from the rest, children started to say 'and per say and' which later evolved into 'ampersand'.