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TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.

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jE6v TIL Arizona tea gallon jugs are flood filled and squeezed so that it is full to the cap so when they purify it with heat even the cap is decontaminated
ANXZx TIL Stan Lee, who helped create Daredevil, was concerned that exaggerating the way a blind person's other senses are heightened would upset blind people. However, after receiving letters from blind people who enjoyed having Daredevil comics read to them, he felt relieved.
OoaN7 TIL The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.
loD97 TIL the Inland Taipan is "by far the most toxic of any snake" - one dose of it's venom "possesses enough lethality to kill at least 100 fully grown men."
JYkym TIL because France prohibits alcohol sponsorship of sport, the Guinness Six Nations rugby championship is branded there as 'Six Nations Greatness'