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TIL the punctuation mark "?!" Is called an Interrobang.

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wLDoP TIL Toni Morrison helped fund “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” a play by Ishmael Reed that critiques the white-washing in Hamilton
4X4Qw TIL that the Icelandic language has a term, "gludda vedur" (glue-ca ver-tish), which describes weather that's nice to look at, but not nice to be out in. It loosely translates to 'window weather'.
ZpwMo TIL that after releasing two albums that flopped, Neil Young was sued by his label, Geffen Records, for releasing music with so little commercial appeal that it was "unrepresentative" of himself. After the lawsuit, he released two more albums on the same label, leading to lowest sales in his career.
XEyb6 TIL: The USA Owns 1 Acre of Land in Mexico City that Serves as a Cemetery for Soldiers Killed in the Mexican-American War. 170 Years Later, 813 Americans are Still Buried Here.
0w8lN TIL that Sitting Bull's remains were stolen from the Standing Rock Reservation, by his granddaughters, and buried in Mobridge SD. There a monument of Nancy Kicking Bear, a granddaughter of Sitting Bull, was erected.