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TIL there is a punctuation mark that combines a question mark and a comma that was patented in 1992.

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pGR8 TIL Nicolas Cage owns a nine-foot tall pyramid in New Orleans and plans to be buried there
XErBR TIL of Orestes Lorenzo, a Cuban fighter pilot who defected to the US. He flew to Florida in a MiG-23 and requested his family join him, when his family were banned from leaving Cuba he raised money to buy a plane. He then flew back to Cuba, landed on a highway an bought his family back himself.
R7wkl TIL that because there are no surviving specimens of the heavily armoured Korean "turtle ship", historians still debate about what the ships actually looked like, though most now agree that they were in fact turtle-shaped
0waLL TIL: Turkish Garbage Collectors Curate Their Own Library using books they have collected that people have thrown away. The sanitation workers have already amassed a collection of more than 6,000 books.
PY66g TIL that before the 12th Amendment the Vice President was the Presidential candidate who won the second most votes, instead of a running mate