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TIL - Each language uses a different quote system. Some will use double angle quotes, others single curved quotes, sometimes in high position, sometimes in low position

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d8av7 TIL: about the Transcontinental Airmail Route. A series of huge, bright yellow, illuminated, concrete arrows, built in the 1920s. They were every 10 miles and followed to enable night flying. A lot of these concrete arrows, now cracked and aged, still exist across America.
RMMl TIL that most of the musicians heard playing on Michael Jackson’s album “Thriller” were actually members of the band Toto.
NX5PN TIL that Natale Olivieri created Yoo-hoo after several failed attempts to bottle chocolate drinks that would spoil shortly thereafter. After Olivieri observed his wife canning fruits and vegetables, Olivieri adopted the same heat processing techniques and began officially bottling Yoo-hoo in 1928.
6EgJ TIL Soundgarden did a 1 minute cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s duet “2 Minute’s Silence,” claiming to have cut Yoko’s minute from the track.
b97va TIL you are a Jr. if you're named after your dad, but a II (second) if you take the name from someone else in the family.