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TIL Israeli elementary schools tend not to use the ’+’ symbol since it looks like the Christian cross.

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E76p TIL: When Clint Eastwood was 21 he survived a plan crash in the ocean then swam unassisted two miles in the frigid Pacific waters just off the San Fransisco Bay.
VM5PB TIL 3.6 billion people have watched some part of the live broadcast of the 2016 Olympics. That is almost half of the world's population.
l5oN TIL that the Church of Scientology has a compound in CA called Gold Base that is guarded by snipers and armed gate guards. It houses a prison that practices torture, and a paramilitary training school.
QMZd TIL Batman used guns until 1939.
ADPa TIL Tic Tacs are labelled as zero sugar despite sugar being it’s primary ingredient because if a single serving contains less than 0.5 g of sugars it is allowable to express the amount of sugar in a serving as zero. One serving is one Tic Tac.