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TIL that the division symbol is called an “obelus,” and was used in ancient manuscripts to mark passages that were suspected of being corrupted or spurious.

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EgWlW TIL China controls the companies that between them provide all the electricity to Lima, which is home to a third of the country’s population
N7QnE TIL that Mel Blanc, the voice of Barney Rubble, suffered a car crash during production of Season 1 and so the actors would crowd around his hospital bed to record lines while the producers used a built in speaker to direct. Around forty episodes were recorded in such a manner.
neWkr TIL the last male Northern white rhino joined Tinder
Wk9w4 TIL that when Clennon King applied to study at the University of Mississippi in 1958 he was arrested and placed in a mental asylum because he was black and therefore considered insane since no other black person had ever tried to enter the university.
16O44 TIL Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption was so powerful it was heard 3,000 miles away and changed global weather patterns”