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TIL that babies are born without kneecaps.

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R7Dja TIL that there is a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Introduced in 2010, the "SarcMark" looks like a reversed 6 with a dot in the middle. It is used just like the question mark or exclamation mark, except this mark indicates irony or sarcasm. However, anyone hoping to use it must pay $1.99 (£1.20).
KAgJ TIL during the prohibition era, the US government added poison to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government added more and they killed 10,000 people.
pwee TIL in the 1940s at Oxford, Professor JRR Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
9YaJB TIL that Herodotus, also known as “The Father of History”, was accused by a fellow historian, Thucydides, of making up stories for entertainment. Today, modern Historians and Archaeologists have confirmed most of what he wrote in “Histories”, to be factual.
D1Qeg TIL that there was a Peanuts/Spider-Man Crossover comic strip, in which, Spider-Man helps Charlie Brown kick the football by trapping Lucy in a web.