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TIL that there are symbols beyond the percent sign %: permille sign ‰ and permyriad sign ‱

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pYPxN TIL about Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox, a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It demonstrates that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate an infinite number of additional guests.
P1DAJ TIL the current leading theory for the origin of Chronic Wasting Disease (Zombie Deer Disease) is that sheep infected with Scrapie shared pastures with deer in Colorado in the 1960s and infected the deer
5krR TIL that the Sega Master System sells roughly 150,000 units per year to this day in Brazil, and continues to get new and exclusive games to the region. It has remained popular in Brazil since its 1989 debut, making it the longest running console of all time.
oBDRE TIL the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai centre line started with the engineers hand clap (skip to 8:55)
KOKxJ TIL that when deputy-Führer Rudolf Hess was invited to the Berghof by Hitler, he often brought his own 'biologically organic' food for dinner. Hitler did not like it.