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TIL the punctuation mark "?!" Is called an Interrobang.
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TIL about Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welsh to hold the title Prince of Wales. Owain was the leader of a fierce and long-running war of independence. Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was neither captured nor betrayed, ignored royal pardons and vanished after 1412.
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TIL Many Christmas traditions come from the Roman holiday Saturnalia.
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TIL: Rowlf the Dog was the first Muppet. Created by Jim Henson in 1962 Rowlf first appeared in a Purina dog food commercial.
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TIL that if you connect jello to an EEG brain scan, it registers as being so alive that you wouldn’t legally be allowed to turn it’s life support off.
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TIL that Thich Quang Duc, a monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic church in Saigon, remained motionless and never made a sound as he was burning alive. His heart remained intact afterwards. The photo of him burning alive won the Pulitzer prize.