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

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Eg8eX TIL that in 1997 Oprah Winfrey was sued for, 'disparaging beef,' after an outbreak of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease in humans) in Great Britain stopped her from eating burgers.
GGEJ TIL Italians are growing an outdoor cathedral, its roof & walls made of soaring branches
X04Z8 TIL that a human scientist mind-controlled a cybernetic rat's movement with a brain-to-brain interface
JYMwQ TIL that mosquito nets given to people in Africa to protect them from contracting malaria whilst sleeping are instead being used as fishing nets, damaging local ecosystems and the chemicals they're coated in are affecting drinking water supplies
MePDB TIL metal musicians recorded a charity single in 1985 named Stars