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TIL U+3164 (Hangul Filler) is a Unicode character that looks completely blank but isn’t. It was originally designed as a placeholder for Korean syllables, and today it’s also used in odd text tricks, like blank-looking messages.

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aZk0 TIL that a mob from a nearby county threatened to lynch Black newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. for writing an editorial condemning a lynching. Armed with two pistols, he then traveled to that same county to report on the lynching on-site.
l799B Til: that Haile Gebreselassie gets punch in the head and won the race
0pjL TIL That a Man Will Have On Average 3 Erections Whilst Sleeping Each Night
1Mxd TIL that the Mushroom Houses in Super Mario Bros. 3 already know what item it will randomly give you at the start, therefore picking one box has no advantage over picking the others.
E1pwx TIL more than 20 people have died after getting stuck in donation boxes in the US and Canada over the past dozen years.