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TIL that the technical name for the division sign (÷) is “Obelus”

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e8XJ TIL that Alien Ant Farm crashed the BET awards in 2003 to film their music video for “These Days”. They were arrested for the act.
l77g1 TIL Romanian prisoners would receive reduced sentences if they wrote a book.
woPNE TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.
epDo5 TIL: Arlington National Cemetery is built on land initially owned by George Washington’s stepson and later owned by Robert E. Lee. The land was seized during the Civil War to serve as a burial site for the large amount of war casualties.
kJGpd TIL Known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, in 1930 the United States enacted heavy tariffs that ultimately failed to achieve their intended outcome. Some economists attributed that action as leading to the Great Depression.