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TIL there's an archaic Cyrillic character, ꙮ, called the "Multiocular O", only attested in a manuscript in the word for "multieyed seraphim"

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VZG4 TIL that Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical, broke a German Monopoly on bromine by buying chemicals in America that the germans were selling at a loss to put him out of business, and reselling them in Germany for a profit.