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TIL the first text message in history was "Merry Christmas" and was sent in 1992 from a computer to a mobile phone.

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b6EkQ TIL: In 1962 a man named Martin K. Speckter invented "the interrobang" (‽), a glyph which combines the glyphs and functions of the question mark (?) and exclamation point (!).
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