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TIL there is an “official” unicode anger symbol. It’s ? which represents veins on your forehead when your blood pressure rises.

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p8vp8 TIL that lava is between 100,000 to 1,100,000 times as viscous as water. Falling into it would be like hitting something solid, rather than a liquid.
x6bJg TIL The space probe Juno was unable to make use of its Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument during its first otherwise successful close flyby of Jupiter due to it being offline awaiting a software update.
W704B TIL the origin of the dance routine from Whigfield’s “Saturday Night” are unknown. Once she performed the song and to her bemusement people started doing it. It was not in her music video and she never knew about it.
nWgJB TIL in 1976 A network of Non-Profit Wilderness and Residential Therapy Programs for Troubled Kids spanning the US was discovered to be a front for CSAM and child prostitution. They got access to at-risk youth and funding through county, state and federal agencies upwards of $700 per month per child
9nW7 TIL the longest continual train rail can take you from the Portuguese coast, through Russia, all the way to southern Vietnam, covering over 10,700 miles (17k kilometers) and 17 countries in 13 days.