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TIL the earliest recorded known use of the arrow symbol (“→”) was in 1737

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DQGwv TIL about Carlo Acutis. A 15-yo boy who died in 2006, and canonized in 2024 becoming the first, and currently only, "gamer saint".
5V8x9 TIL that Junaluska was a Cherokee leader who saved Andrew Jackson's life. Jackson subsequently forced the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears, where thousands died. Junaluska survived and mentioned that if he had been aware of what was going to occur, he would have taken Jackson's life himself.
GYYXE TIL Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle was mentioned as a possible suspect in the "Piltdown Man" hoax - one of the most significant scientific hoaxes of the 20th century
LkrJP TIL women (and only women) used to be banned from smoking in public.
nWwBr TIL that the largest living organism on the planet is a fungus! In the state of Oregon, USA, there is an Armillaria ostoyae – also known as the 'honey fungus' – that spans approximately 965 hectares (around 2,400 acres).