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TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".

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ADDEd First, a disclaimer: Selling your organs is illegal in the United States. It's also very dangerous. Handing off an organ is risky enough when done in a top hospital, even more so if you're doing it for cash in a back alley. No, really: Don't do this. OK? OK.
9YyQp TIL that prehistoric European often connected Oak trees to their respective lightning gods. Modern scientific evidence points to Oak trees as being more likely to be struck by lightning.
X0VAR TIL that around 15,000 US soldiers died in Pilot training during WW2. They lost 65,164 planes during the war but only 22,948 was lost in combat.
ao6o TIL Scottie from Mythbusters quit welding and became a dental hygenist
OomD4 TIL that the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone layer was the first treaty in UN history to have been accepted by all member states. If the treaty and it's actions had not been accepted, the ozone layer would've been so degraded by 2070 that just 5 minutes in sunlight would burn you.