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TIL Shuffling cards seven times produces an order never seen before, literally.

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yQkk8 TIL that in addition to the Percent sign (%) for 1/100, There is also a Per-mille symbol (‰) for 1/1,000 and a per-the-thousand symbol called a Bias Point (‱) for 1/10,000
KOexQ TIL that children exposed to violence and abuse show signs of faster aging
YpjEG TIL one of the six flags in Six Flags is the Confederate flag
v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
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