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TIL emojis and emoticons are not interchangeable words. Emoticans are made with characters - like :), :(, B-), O_O, while emojis are pictographs (literally meaning "picture character" in Japanese) - like the roughly corresponding 🙂, 😔, 😎, 😳

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mVdO TIL a woman was once fined and faced jail time for reporting her rape. The cops did not believe her until her rapist was caught raping another woman and had pictures of him raping the earlier victim
l7lBG TIL The village of Waterproof, Louisiana sits two and a half miles from it's original 1830's location having been moved three times due to flood waters
w8K1 TIL that there is a single Cashew tree in Natal, Brazil that has a mutation which allowed it to cover an area of 7500 square meters
d8ndr TIL about Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, an extremely rare illness, which causes episodes of being mostly asleep for weeks at a time. If awake during an episode, sufferers are confused about what is real and what is a dream. The condition appears in adolescence and resolves itself 10-15 years later.
Bn5K TIL that in 2013, India’s army watched “Chinese spy drones” violating its air space for six months. They later found out they were actually watching Jupiter and Venus.