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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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9w6rp TIL it is estimated that at least 1 in 7 American adults have chronic kidney disease.
9YVX6 TIL Octopuses live only 3-5 years, so they have limited time for accumulating information. Some researchers say that if octopuses had lived more, they, and not humans, would have been the dominant intelligence on Earth.
KByQ TIL Actor who played Crabbe in Harry Potter was imprisoned for two years because of his participation in the 2011 England Riots
yVBve TIL that Leonid Rogozov was not squeamish - an only doctor among 13 (talk about unlucky!) researchers at an Antarctic station, he performed a successful appendectomy on HIMSELF, helped by two assistants whose roles were to: a) pass him instruments; b) hold a mirror so that he could see better
P6PO TIL beavers wear their teeth down as much as a millimeter per day, but grow continuously at a rate 10x faster than human fingernails.