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

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JxE4 TIL that President Jimmy Carter placed his peanut farm in a blind trust when he was elected president. After his term ended, he found that it had been badly mismanaged and he was $1 million in debt.
Eg5Bp TIL that most Japanese people have only one pinky toe knuckle instead of two. Thus, most Japanese people have only 204 bones instead of 206. This went completely unnoticed until 1995.
xLgB TIL Nicolas Cage won China’s ‘Best Global Actor’ award in 2013
oBaKo TIL that the abbreviation a.m stands for "ante meridiem" and p.m means "post meridiem".
ROK1 TIL while sexual sadist serial killer Peter Kürten was in a guillotine, he said to a priest, “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”