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TIL ⸮ is a punctuation mark to signify irony or sarcasm, instead of /s.

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ANae4 TIL If it wasn't for the fact that ice is less dense than water, and therefore floats, life on Earth would not exist.
ZGv4 TIL that as a child Elon Musk was bullied so severely he once had to be hospitalized because of a beating from other students
BgBkb TIL the "Perhapsatron" was an early Fusion Power device developed in Los Alamos that no one was sure would work, hence calling it "perhaps-a-tron"
0w5D5 TIL you shouldn’t give children under 6 months old water, as among other reasons, their kidneys cannot filter plain water - leaving them susceptible to water intoxication.
gr04A TIL Luddites were protesting working conditions and low pay, not technology