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TIL Obelus is the proper term for a division sign.

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1Vjr TIL in 2011 the city of Portland, Oregon discarded 7.8 million gallons of drinking water, not because of the dead animals “regularly found in the drinking supply,” but because a drunk 21-year-old peed in it.
4Q4X TIL The first native English speaker to teach English in Japan was named Ranald MacDonald
nW6ad TIL that the US Air Force built a supercomputer comprised entirely of PlayStation 3s
pYeNe TIL bully sticks are just dried bull penises
NXE86 TIL over 20 million people were killed in Chinese Islamic insurgency in 1860s and 1870s under Qing dysnasty, one province lost 14 million and the neighboring province 6 million