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TIL The technical name for The # symbol is octothorpe.

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5YgwB TIL that US law requires that eggs sold in supermarkets must be washed. And EU law requires that eggs sold in supermarkets must NOT be washed. Both do it to prevent salmonella.
N7mM1 TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')
grZNy TIL that, in order to test the effectivenes of their program, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America intentionally left nearly 500 at-risk children on an 18 month long wait list to compare their behaviors to those children placed with a mentor.
XLvE TIL Caesar Salad was created in Mexico
W7ZnN TIL although Pepperdine University is in an area historically known for wildfires, they never evacuate their students, faculty, and staff duirng a brushfre. Working with LAFD, constructing buildings with fire-resistant materials, and creating firebreaks make the campus ideal for sheltering in place.