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TIL The technical name for The # symbol is octothorpe.

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8aedP TIL of Tama (たま, April 29, 1999 – June 22, 2015), a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
6odW TIL Taking it in turns to pay for meals makes you happier than splitting the bill
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
OGOxL TIL that all three Marshals of France during the First World War had first names that began with the same letter as their last names: Joseph Joffre, Ferdinand Foch and Philippe Petain (who later became the ill-fated head of Vichy France during the German occupation).
69W6J TIL in 1988 a teenager attempted suicide with a gun due to his severe obsessive compulsive disorder but instead the bullet destroyed the part of his brain causing the disorder without damaging his ability to think or learn. After recovery, he finished college which had previously been disrupted..22-