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TIL that the punctuation mark ?! is called an 'interrobang,' invented in the 1960s to combine a question mark and exclamation point for rhetorical questions.

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PYgZL TIL America has a 'Hague Invasion Act' in which the act authorizes the USA to invade the Netherlands if any American Service Member is ever held on trial by the International Criminal Court for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
QMk6 TIL: The first battle of the Civil War took place on Wilmer McLean’s farm. He moved to get away from the violence, but 4 years later Lee would surrender to Grant in his new house. His quote: “The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor.”
14vW TIL the Danube river (Europe’s longest river) begins in the Black Forest in Germany, flows southeast for 1,189 miles, passes through four capital cities, and ends in the Black Sea.
Rp5l TIL Israel admitted to administering immigrating Ethiopian women with a “long-acting” contraception without their knowledge; with the ironic goal of keeping Israel “pure”.
9wep TIL that when Czar Dmitri II of Russia was found to be a Polish impostor, he was shot and cremated. His ashes were promptly shoved in a cannon and fired in the direction of Poland.